The Jak and Skills duo is back.
Hours after torching the Spurs with a 37-point performance Wednesday night in a win over San Antonio, Raptors star Pascal Siakam got even better news: his best friend was rejoining him.
Jakob Poeltl was traded to the Raptors in the wee hours Thursday just ahead of the trade deadline, a move that reunites the Spurs centre with the team that picked him ninth overall in the 2016 draft.
The Raptors selected Siakam 27th in the same draft, and in the following years the two formed a bond both on and off the court — until Poeltl was packaged with DeMar DeRozan in that blockbuster trade to the Spurs for Kawhi Leonard.