Bobby Webster talked about a sense of “giddiness” around the Toronto Raptors as they went through their final preparations for a historic franchise night.
And then Serge Ibaka sat at the microphone at the practice facility and proved the team’s general manager wasn’t imagining things.
“I’ve been asking myself, I don’t know what I’m (more) excited for, for the first game of the season or to see the rings,” a downright bubbly Ibaka said of the ceremony that will precede Tuesday night’s Raptors home opener against the New Orleans Pelicans. “I’m trying to figure out which one I’m very excited about.