{"id":8099,"date":"2017-06-02T11:58:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T15:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=8099"},"modified":"2017-07-02T12:10:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T16:10:57","slug":"serge-ibaka-agrees-re-sign-raptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2017\/06\/02\/serge-ibaka-agrees-re-sign-raptors\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Serge Ibaka Agrees to Re-Sign With Toronto Raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Raptors have agreed to re-sign unrestricted free agent power forward <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/i\/ibakase01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Serge Ibaka<\/a><\/strong> to a contract worth $65 million over three years. The contract cannot officially be signed until the end of the NBA\u2019s moratorium period on July 6th.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adrian Wojnarowski<\/strong> of ESPN broke the news Sunday morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Source: Free agent forward Serge Ibaka has reached deal on three-year, $65M contract to stay with the Toronto&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ATpQCWXQ36\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/ATpQCWXQ36<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/881540776768880641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 2, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Serge Ibaka Agrees to Three-Contract With Toronto Raptors<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Ibaka\u2019s contract will take him through the end of the 2019-20 season. There are no player or team options in the deal, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffZillgitt\/status\/881543677423886336\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to <strong>Jeff Zillgitt<\/strong> of USA Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Ibaka averaged 14.8 points, 6.8 rebounds, and 1.6 blocks per game in a year split between\u00a0the Orlando Magic and the Raptors. He was arguably the Magic\u2019s best player before being traded to Toronto after he made it public that he wouldn&#8217;t be re-signing with Orlando during the off-season. Once considered one of the league&#8217;s best defenders, Ibaka has morphed himself into a capable scorer and an excellent three-point shooter. He shot 39.1 percent from deep last season. In the new era of analytics and shooting, a mobile, athletic, and skilled shooter like Ibaka could be invaluable to a team wanting to make a title run.<\/p>\n<p>Ibaka will continue to provide rim protection and shooting for Toronto; he is a stabilizing force in the frontcourt. He is capable of switching on pick-and-rolls or hedging before recovering back to the paint. Ibaka will continue to be the primary power forward for the Raptors, provided he stays healthy. If <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/v\/valanjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonas Valanciunas<\/a><\/strong> is traded, Ibaka may shift up a position to center.<\/p>\n<p>Ibaka played the first seven seasons of his career with the Oklahoma City Thunder, who selected him with the 24th overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft (at the time, they were the Seattle Supersonics). The Thunder traded him to Orlando in the 2016 off-season, but he played just 56 games there before the Magic sent him to Toronto at the 2017 trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the LWOS 2017 NBA Free Agency Tracker for all of your NBA free agency coverage, and be sure to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LastWordHoops?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">follow @LastWordHoops<\/a> on Twitter to stay up-to-date with all the latest NBA news.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/646903218\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/646903218?et=zotSZ90QRv921XauiZmL9Q&amp;tld=ca&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=CLo3kvZOz_9tEQm-pmIhc5Uf4G197T4Ydj8cPrv6MqA=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, free agent power forward Serge Ibaka agrees to a three-year, $65 million contract with the Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1501,"featured_media":8143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,2,62,3],"tags":[65,96,297,202,128,318],"class_list":["post-8099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-raptors","category-featured","category-nba","category-news","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-nba-free-agency","tag-nba-news","tag-serge-ibaka","tag-toronto-raptors"],"modified_by":"Lior Kozai (Managing Editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}