“We understand we are a growing team, but I’m not going to come here and continue to say we are a growing team,” the Raptors president said Friday. Basketball and playoff basketball is all about winning and that is what we want to do.”Ujiri put the Raptors on that path earlier this year by swinging deals to acquire key rotation players in P.J. Tucker and Serge Ibaka, who imbue the measure of grit and determination all good teams need. Ibaka will be playing his 90th NBA playoff game on Saturday at the Air Canada Centre and has been in a league final with the Oklahoma City Thunder. Tucker may not have any post-season experience, but his game is predicated on all the things that create post-season success.

Source: thestar April 14, 2017 22:07 UTC