Aug 202012
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Serge Ibaka left money on the table, but are the ancillary benefits worth the cost?
You can count on one hand the number of players who can legitimately bother LeBron James at the rim, make an open mid-range jumper and dunk off of one dribble from just about anywhere inside 20 feet. Over the weekend, the Oklahoma City locked up one of those guys, Serge Ibaka, for four years $48 million.
The deal is an outright coup for Thunder general manager Sam Presti.