He has a lot of athletic abilities that big NBA players don't have, and in Popovich's mind, he's one of the best players in the NBA league, on the defensive end, he has 18 siblings, and the biggest size of NBA players, he's Sergi Ibaka.
Born in 1989, Ibaka was the sixteenth in the family, because his parents were basketball players, so he played basketball every day at the age of 7, his mother died of cholera at the age of 8, and when he was 9 years old, war broke out in the Congo, so he lived a life of upheaval and displacement, although it was a time of war, but Ibaka still did not give up basketball.
At the age of 17, Ibaka led Congo to the African Youth Basketball Championship, won the MVP individually, and then was brought to the lower league by scouts to play, in 2008 at the NBA Draft, Ibaka was selected by the Seattle Supersonics with the 24th pick in the first round, and officially entered the NBA in 2009.
After coming to the Thunder, Ibaka quickly became an important force in the Thunder's restricted area, and Durant, Westbrook, harden became the famous "Thunder Four Young", in the seven years of the Thunder, Ibaka twice won the block king, three consecutive times selected for the NBA's best defensive team.
In June 2016, Ibaka was traded to the Magic by the Thunder, and was brought to Toronto by the Raptors in February of the following year with Terrence Rose and a 2017 first-round pick, and as of this season, Ibaka's career regular season block count reached 1518, surpassing Caldwell Jones at 35th all-time and 252 in the playoff block, surpassing DeKembe Mutombo to rank 9th in history.
However, although Ibaka's defensive ability is very good, the most widely known thing about him is the photo of the "crotch hidden gun", thanks to that photo, Ibaka won the "28" nickname, and was laughed at by many fans as "the largest size player in the NBA".
In response to this matter, Ibaka's fiancée Kelly Hilson also gave a positive answer in an interview, saying that the photo on the Internet was real, his muscles were solid, and there was no fake in his whole body. For Hills's reply, many netizens also said that it is really happy to have such a big fiancé.