For a team that claims to always draft for upside rather than fit, 22-year-old Christian Koloko fits an awful lot of needs for the Toronto Raptors.
The 33rd selection in the 2022 NBA Draft, Koloko hails from Duala, Cameroon, the same city as Raptors forward Pascal Siakam, where he similarly grew up playing soccer and only fully committed himself to the game of basketball five years ago.
"We the North" - Christian Koloko
Open Gym: Moment presented by @Bell pic.twitter.com/SCxjrb6GNRKoloko participated in the 2017 Basketball Without Borders Africa and the 2018 Basketball Without Borders Global Camp, where the Raptors first saw a “long, skinny, lanky kid,” as general manager Bobby Webster described his first impressions.