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IBAKA COULD HAVE STAYED WITH RAPTORS, HE CHOSE NOT TO
“How to explain what Toronto, Canada, and the Raptors mean to me?
“I was welcomed to a new country and a new team more than three years ago and I felt at home from day one. I feel really blessed to have played for this city, these fans, and this organization.”
That was Serge Ibaka’s emotional goodbye to the city. It was also pretty much social-media, agent-driven packaged bunk.
Ibaka had a choice to make about his NBA career. He was a free agent, had earned that right, and the key word being free. From that, you can decide what you, as a player, want to do and where you want to play and if there’s more than one offer, and there was in this case, then the decision gets a little more complicated.
Let’s be clear here: For all Ibaka loved Toronto, Canada and the Raptors, and how much it apparently tore him apart to leave, the first opportunity he had, he left. He signed on with the Los Angeles Clippers. With Kawhi Leonard. He was championship chasing here, not unusual in the NBA, and in this case it’s championship chasing and getting the opportunity to live in LA.
Serge Ibaka could have stayed and played with the Raptors at least one more season, maybe more. He made a decision in his best interest. It was his choice to leave.
TORONTO DESERVES NEW BALLPARK. MAYBE JUST NOT NOW
In downtown Pittsburgh, hardly the economic centre of the U.S., there is one of the great ballparks in all of America.
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2020-11-28 23:56:39Z
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