Serge Ibaka does not know what is going to happen when he steps onto the floor at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City on Sunday.
He has played on that floor plenty of times before. He has been through heartache and growing pains there. And he has been through success and triumph. And the bitter disappointment of coming so close, yet being so far.
Ibaka has never stepped onto that floor though wearing the opposing team’s jersey, though. He has never had to face the loud Oklahoma City Thunder crowd directed against him.