Toronto Star beat reporter Doug Smith has been covering the Raptors for some time, and isn’t given to speculative nonsense. So when he writes about Serge Ibaka being on the Raptors radar for the 2017-18 season, we need to pay attention.
Ibaka was recently traded from the Oklahoma City Thunder to the Orlando Magic. This was a head-scratcher of a move, particularly from Orlando’s perspective. Why they felt they needed another big man, when Nikola Vucevic and Bismack Biyombo (I suspect Ibaka’s arrival makes the Magic the only team with two Congolese on the roster) were already on board, is quite beyond me.