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Serge Ibaka Video: Watch OKC Big Man Swat Two Kings' Shots in the Thunder Win

Ryan Braun
Feb 16, 2011

The leagueโ€™s easiest team to fall for continued to woo, as the Thunder steamrolled the Kings Wednesday night, 126-94.ย 

Oklahoma City poured in 68 points in the first half, and the game was over soon after.ย 

Daequan Cook scored a season-high 20 points off the bench, while league-leading scorer Kevin Durant added 17 points in 27 minutes of play.ย 

The Thunder had seven players score in double-figures, while holding an undermanned Sacramento squad to 40 percent shooting.

Of note in the video above? Serge Ibaka is awesome.ย 

I was inappropriately close to titling this article Serge I-blak-a, which would have gone a long way to sully the good name heโ€™s building for himself.

Heโ€™s now sixth in the league in blocks, despite averaging just 26 minutes a game and his overall contributions continue to beg the question: Why is he not starting?ย 

I suspect the answer is to maximize Jeff Green and thatโ€™s an appropriate angle for Scott Brooks to be taking. But if Ibaka continues to develop at the rate that he has, heโ€™ll soon become one of the best two-way fours in the league.ย 

And by that time, the Thunderโ€™s dilemma will have become everyone elseโ€™s.

A wee bit more imminently, the Thunder will send three players to Los Angeles for this weekendโ€™s All-Star festivities. Ibaka heads to the dunk contest, Durant and Russell Westbrook to the All-Star game.ย 

The Thunder (35-19) currently sit at the four-seed in the west and will have more than a week off before they return to the court against the Clippers, in the Oklahoma homecoming of Blake Griffin.