Through career highs and personal lows, Raptors' Siakam merits all-NBA honours - Sportsnet.ca

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With the worst behind him, the best is yet to come. That’s how Pascal Siakam is approaching the news that he has earned all-NBA recognition for the second time in three seasons. (michaelgrange)

organization and then had to recover from off-season shoulder surgery – all in the space of roughly 18 months.

But from that point on? Siakam was on a level very few reached in the NBA this season, and arguably no Raptor ever has, at least with regard to his all-around play. As it is Siakam joined Vince Carter and DeMar DeRozan as the only players in franchise history to earn two all-NBA nods while playing in Toronto. At 28 years old and with two more years on his contract, there’s no reason to believe Siakam can’t be the first Raptor to be named all-NBA three times and more.

“I’ve evolved as a player and there’s different things I have to work on, understanding the level I want to reach as a player,” said Siakam, who only started playing organized basketball a decade ago. “So I’m going to work on different things that you have to do and find things that are going to give us an edge.

But Siakam embraced it, tentatively at first and then with more enthusiasm as he realized that players who are still trying find their way in the NBA benefit from feedback and encouragement from someone who has won a title, been an all-star and is among the league’s best players, especially after being a late first-round pick not too long ago in 2016.

 

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