Bismack Biyombo may be gone, but his impact lives on in the Toronto Raptors’ locker room. Nowhere is that impact felt more than in the stall occupied by Lucas Nogueira, the man who has ostensibly stepped into Biyombo’s role and, for the most part, filled it. “I am never going to replace Biz,” Nogueira said. Nogueira will never have that kind of mean streak, but at the same time, he has qualities Biyombo will never have, too. And Nogueira will be the first one to tell you he owes a lot of that to Biyombo.

Source: National Post January 29, 2017 19:31 UTC