{"id":119689,"date":"2026-05-03T15:23:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T15:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/chet-holmgren-says-serge-ibaka-still-around-talkbasket-net\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T15:23:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T15:23:37","slug":"chet-holmgren-says-serge-ibaka-still-around-talkbasket-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/chet-holmgren-says-serge-ibaka-still-around-talkbasket-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Chet Holmgren says Serge Ibaka still around &#8211; TalkBasket.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/@unknownvision_peterbaba_2025HornetsvThunder6-696x464.webp 696w, https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/@unknownvision_peterbaba_2025HornetsvThunder6.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" type=\"image\/webp\"><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Peter Baba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Oklahoma City Thunder have continued to foster strong ties with former key players, including Serge Ibaka, reflecting a culture that values long-term relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Rising big man Chet Holmgren recently shared his appreciation for that environment, according to Justin Martinez of The Oklahoman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s amazing. One, I think it speaks to the culture that those guys, Serge, still coming back around however many years since he left here,\u201d Holmgren said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c \u2026 It was cool to sit down and talk to Serge about some of his experiences in this exact building. It\u2019s been fun.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Ibaka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statmuse.com\/nba\/player\/serge-ibaka-1723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">played<\/a> 14 seasons for 5 teams, including the Thunder and Raptors. He averaged 12.0 points and 7.1 rebounds in 919 regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p>He won 1 NBA championship.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Northwest Notes: Nuggets\u2019 Outlook, Edwards, Dosunmu, Thunder Culture <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/enEHSs8Za1\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/enEHSs8Za1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hoops Rumors (@HoopsRumors) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HoopsRumors\/status\/2050796011959034038?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 3, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/217589-chet-holmgren-says-serge-ibaka-still-around\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Peter Baba The Oklahoma City Thunder have continued to foster strong ties with former key players, including Serge Ibaka, reflecting a culture that values long-term relationships. Rising big man Chet Holmgren recently shared his appreciation for that environment, according to Justin Martinez of The Oklahoman. \u201cI think it\u2019s amazing. One, I think it speaks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}