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(Cars honking)
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Crowd: Defense!
Devlin: Ibaka steps back, hand in his face.
And Ibaka now three for four from the field.
- My name is Ibaka Ngobila Serge Jonas.
Devlin: Knocks it down, Serge Ibaka.
In Toronto they're celebrating an NBA championship.
Serge: When I won the NBA championship
it was unbelievable.
I love you.
(Loud cheering)
- My dad here. Dad.
And I was so happy to share the moment with my family,
Toronto, and all of Canada.
(Loud cheering)
Now I'm going to share this moment
with my homeland, The Congo,
and my city Brazzaville.
That's where I grew up
and learned to love basketball.
♪♪♪
Sometimes I had no shoes,
sometimes I had no food,
but it didn't matter,
I played basketball everyday
and dreamed of one day being the NBA champion.
Now my dream has come true
and I'm taking the NBA trophy home
to show my people anything is possible.
♪♪♪
(Knock on door)
- C'est qui?
Oh yeah, the big boy's here.
Ooh.
Wow.
Let me see, let me see.
Uh-oh, hell yeah, hell yeah.
You know, one of my dream always been
if I win a championship,
you know, I would love to,
you know, bring the trophy back home to my people,
to inspire my people, like I used to dream
when I didn't have nothing
and I think they can do, they can see,
do the same thing and believe like anything is possible.
Welcome to Congo, Brazzaville.
- It's kinda dirty though, we gotta clean it up.
- Yeah, we have to clean the baby.
- So after winning the championship,
we had this crazy idea of like why not bring it to The Congo.
So Serge's eyes were kind of sparkling.
- I told Jordi, I want to go e,
everywhere I used to go and do things,
I wanna go there again,
but this time with the NBA trophy.
You know, the first thing in my mind was
I can't believe I'm gonna actually have the NBA trophy
in my hands in Congo.
I was just happy, man, I was very happy,
and not only for me, for people, for my family.
Let me see it.
Let me show him the view. You see the view?
It took me 15 years to meet him.
So you see, this is Congo, Brazzaville my friend.
This is, this is where I was born and raised here,
and this is where everything start;
my journey, my dream,
you know, for us to become family today.
Jordi: Serge is one of the biggest,
most well-known person in Congo.
He's the most successful athlete
that's ever come out of Congo,
he's the only NBA player ever
to come from Congo, Brazzaville,
so it's very difficult to go anywhere here in Brazzaville
and not have a group of people go at him and,
and ask him for a picture, or for an autograph.
So from the time that he sets foot here in Congo,
everything changes,
because there's an expectation.
There is a big part of the community
that's waiting for him to arrive.
And most of the people need something from him,
are gonna ask something from him.
♪♪♪
- I mean the price of the life I choose, do I?
And it's the price of all the hard work
I've been putting during all those years
where everybody wanna see you,
everybody wanna take picture with you.
That show you how all the hard you be putting
be paying off to be in the positions, right.
It's, it's a blessing.
♪♪♪
My mother, she was from DRC, Congo,
and she used to play basketball too.
I lost my mom when I was seven.
♪♪♪
All my life I grew up with my dad.
He used to play basketball.
He, he's the person who inspired me a lot
because I had to look up to him.
He motivated me to, you know, to go play basketball.
He, he was a huge part of my life.
♪♪♪
- I think right now we're going to uh,
to this restaurant where,
that's the place where I used to,
I used to go uh, you know,
to go ask for food,
and then when I was young here,
just wait for leftover food when people finished to eat
and I can just, you know, eat the rest of the food.
So that's the place I'm going right now.
I'm, I'm bringing Larry with me
and uh I just wanna feel the moment again,
but I know this time it's different.
This time I'm,
I'm bringing in the NBA champion trophy
so I just, it's,
I'm you know, it's kind of weird feeling
actually right now, I'm fe.
(Cars honking)
So it's crazy.
And even this street,
you see this street we are here, I used to clean.
I used to clean, uh, I used to clean this street here.
I used to, you know, here I, I used to clean here
every night, you know,
I used to clean this street here, so.
♪♪♪
(Low hum of chatter) Man: Serge Ibaka!
- Serge Ibaka. - Salut.
(Speaking French)
- This, this is where I used to come, man.
Jordi: Is this the same,
the same place you always talk about.
- The same place I always talk about.
It's 15 years now, it's fy
and I used to come here everyday and then, you know,
I'm trying to eat.
And I used to come here
and you see that corner there? - Yeah.
- I used to just stand up there
and just watch people eating here.
- Yeah. - And then uh,
you know, whenever somebody, like him, when he's done,
when he, he left like half, half food,
and then I just jump and then I start eating, I start eat.
As for dinner, you know,
when it's over I go back there again, you know.
- In the corner. - In the corner,
just right here in the corner here, stand up here.
Sometime I just, you know, walking back here just,
or be here in the corner. - Yeah.
- I'm just watching.
You know, and sometime I used to come, I used to come here,
it's nobody here eating. I'm like, man, you know,
I'm starving here, you know, I need some food, man.
Merci beaucoup.
I'm eating this now for the first time.
- Is it the same, the same, same stuff?
- Yeah, the same stuff.
For first time I'm eating,
I'm, I'm back eating here after 15 years,
but the different is now
I'm, I'm eating with my big boy here next to me.
You, you, you, you see what I used to eat.
- You talk, you talk to him and you talk like it's a person.
- Yeah this is my, it's a person, man.
- It's your buddy. - This is, it's my buddy here.
(Speaking French)
(Cheering, applause)
- I decide, you know,
to buy everybody food so everybody can enjoy
what I'm enjoying.
And especially I can do it. You know, if I cannot do it,
okay, a different story,
because if I, uh I can do it,
I can offer that to them,
you know, why not do that.
(Low hum of chatter)
That restaurant is the restaurant where,
where I used to go, I used to go beg for food there.
And I never thought one day I'm gonna come back
at the same place,
and you know, 15 years later
at the same place with the NBA trophy next to me.
Come on, man.
I say, like it's crazy, or amazing,
or just, it's crazy.
(Loud cheering)
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Jordi: During Serge's off-season,
it's very important
to have a practice and workout regimen
that he's gonna follow.
He's a workaholic
and he loves to workout on the court, in the gym,
and for him it's very important to not stop.
So he takes this very seriously
so this is the reason why
he asked the Raptors to bring .
John is one of the development coaches.
He was on board to coming to Congo
and being part of this trip.
Woo. Woo!
John: Serge is one of the most elite
rim protectors out there right now
and he's gonna go down as one of the great rim protectors.
And just his effort, and his hustle like when, when he,
when he knows he's gonna block the shot, he gets it.
Yes.
He's becoming even more skilled.
Like he, he trains so hard
and he's very detailed and precise,
and what he wants to do,
and when he goes to the gym he knows what he wants
and you gotta work with him to how you're gonna do it,
and like build that path together.
- Whatever you do behind the .
You know, if you, if you did nothing,
it's gonna show later if you do nothing.
If you do something, it's always gonna show, you know.
Jordi: In between going to see family
and doing a bunch of different things, you know,
in the morning, like he's gonna workout.
(Cars honking)
♪♪♪
- Oh, right now um,
I'm on my way to meet the President
and um I'm, I'm bringing the trophy with,
with me to present to him.
No, I'm not nervous, no I'm just uh,
I'm just you know, no I'm just thankful, man.
♪♪♪
He invited me to go out there after our championship,
I couldn't say no of course.
And uh, it's the first time that an athlete,
or you know, somebody to bring the NBA a trophy.
As a Congolese, I want to, I want, I wanted to do that,
you know, to be the first one.
♪♪♪
(Speaking French)
I'm bringing the NBA trophy,
you know, to the President of my, my country.
Who I am, who I am again? Like...
(Speaking French)
So we talk about different projects and,
and future for, to help the youth.
(Speaking French)
- No, no, Ontario.
I'm not sure if,
if he assumed I was the head coach or something.
Serge kept saying, oh, oh my coach, my coach.
- I'm sure he, he, maybe he,
he thought like John was the head coach of,
uh, of the Raptors.
We say, coach, come, come sit down here.
- I did not want to offend the man.
I, I was- I sat down, and everyone was smiling,
everything was going well,
I was just letting everything happen.
- Because at the beginning, you know,
the security for the protocol, John didn't have,
first of all, John didn't have pants.
- I had no luggage.
They, they lost my luggage at, at the airport,
and then no big and tall stores down there.
- I, John, come on, John,
how you, how you tried to go see the President
and you didn't have even pants.
That was crazy.
Like life could change in different ways.
Bringing the NBA trophy to the President,
shaking his hand, and taking pictures,
this not feel normal, this ,
it's not normal feeling.
You know, it's not, it's not, i.
Trust me, it's, coming from Africa too,
you know, it's not everyday feeling.
I'm thankful for that.
(Speaking French)
♪♪♪
(Low hum of chatter)
- We do a lot of work with foundations.
Like I said, I lost, I lost my mom when I was seven.
At some point, I was in the street
so to me it's very important, you know.
So we do a lot of work with a lot of orphanages,
and uh even known Congo, Brazzaville,
also we do in Congo, Kinshasa.
Every year when we go out there, you know,
we always try to support them financially,
try to give them what they need,
you know, for the whole years, we always do that.
So to me it's very important, you know,
going back and then trying to help.
And one of my dream is to build my own orphanage,
that's always been one of my dreams since I was,
since I was young.
When I used, when I used to, you know,
sit down, hungry with no food,
and then sometime- I used to be--
I would just start crying.
I used to, I used to tell myself like,
one day when you grow up
you're gonna build an orphanage
so you can help others.
(Cars honking)
(Low hum of chatter)
(Clapping)
♪♪♪
Every years I go back with my foundation
we, we, you know, we organize basketball camp.
And I have an academy, it's called "Dreams Academy".
We try to help those kids
and then give them a scholarship,
they can go somewhere
so they can get a better ed.
You know, and then if baske,
you know, if not, at least they have opportunity,
you know, to have a better education.
Jordi: For young players now it's a little bit different
from when Serge was a young player here.
Serge used to play in an outdoor court,
sometimes with a, with no basketball,
real basketball shoes, and in very bad conditions.
Nowadays, a lot of kids have better resources.
So for example,
there's um, four different basketball indoor gyms.
- Basketball is more than,
more than just a game,
so it can change life like it changed my life,
so that's why I always try to, you know,
change the kids life through the basketball.
(Speaking French)
- He used to play on the same team
where I used to play in Brazzaville,
and now he's playing on the same team
where I used to play in Spain.
(Speaking French)
- What I see uh, in Christ
is more than just basketball.
To me, it's not about basketball.
If basketball work for him fi,
but to me the most important is him having opportunity
to go have a better education.
To me, that's important than just basketball.
(Speaking French)
- You know, so every time when I see,
I see this guy here, and Christ here, you know,
like we're playing with them today,
and to me it just, it make my, my heart smile, you know.
So it's those kids are gonna,
I used to come here, I used to see them they was all little,
now they, he's so tall here.
My goal is to always to have more than, more players,
you know, outside in Congo, more players.
I don't, I don't only wanna be the only one here.
(Speaking French)
♪♪♪
(Whistle blows, clapping)
There you go.
(Cheering, clapping)
- Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah!
(Speaking French)
(Applause)
I'm sure going back home uh,
the NBA trophy is gonna, is gonna stay in,
in the, a lot of kids' memories
for, for the rest of their life,
that was something I always wanted.
- 1, 2, 3... All: Champions!
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Jordi: Today we're going to Kintele
which is a neighborhood in the outskirts of Brazzaville
to see Serge's grandmother, Coco,
and she's a very important person in Serge's life,
and she's kind of like a second mom to Serge,
and she's uh, ready to receive him
and the whole family on that side,
all the cousins and uncles
and, and extended family are.
(Speaking French)
Grandmother is his mom's mother
and she lives here in Congo, Brazzaville.
- Look, look what they did here, that's crazy, huh?
Jordi: And she was very important in a period of time
of Serge's childhood because he didn't have a mom
so she was the closest thing that he had to a mom.
(Speaking French) - C'est moi la mama.
- I didn't expect that.
Actually I don't know, I didn't expect that,
but yeah, the way she hold the trophy,
and uh she didn't wanna let the trophy,
you know it, it was just beautiful.
(Speaking French)
My grandmother say he want, he want more, more, more,
like many, many more.
I say, grandma it's not that easy.
He say like seven, eight, I said, like no mom,
it's not that easy.
Michael Jordan only have like six.
(Speaking French)
(Clapping)
- So bringing the trophy uh, at my grandmom house,
and uh, you know, I want, I wanted to make them happy,
I wanted to make them proud, I wanted to make her proud.
Growing up here when I was young,
to have this ham,
it was a really big deal to have that everyday.
So this, when I was young here,
to have this piece,
I'm, I'm showing you this piece for breakfast everyday
was a big deal.
I always love, I loved, you know, to remind myself
where I come from, and uh you know,
it's showing me how blessed I am.
So this used to be big deal to have this everyday,
and I'm so thankful today
I can buy three or four of this
and eat it with my family, you know.
(Speaking French)
♪♪♪
When I'm on my way to see my grandmom,
I always buy that and go out there,
eat there,
and of course when you go there is a lot of kids, you know,
I have a lot of ne-my nephew, all of them,
out there watching me so I couldn't,
I couldn't just be out there and be the only one eating
and everybody watching.
So that's I have to buy a lot and share with them.
Actually it's a ham, yeah, it's ham and bread,
but it was you know, back then it was pretty expensive,
you know, and uh it was a little fancy to eat that
everyday in the morning.
If you can have that everyday in the morning,
that little piece uh you saw,
that little piece I was cutting,
if you can have that everyday in the morning, you are fancy.
So now I can, I can buy 10, 20, 100 of that,
so I always do that.
Everyday when I go back, you know, I always try.
(Traffic rumbles)
So this is, right here is the, my neighborhood name,
it's called Ouenzé, that's where we're going.
It's called Ouenzé.
This is my foundation logo.
This country, this city,
they are the reason I don't give up
and I know I was choosing to be here, you know.
It was not by mistake, it was not by luck,
because I was choosing.
That's why I'm bringing Larry here
because it didn't happen by mistake.
This is where I start, I started to play basketball.
This is the basketball court
where I started to play basketball.
That's the place where everything start.
That's where I start to play basketball.
I didn't have a basketball
because at that time it was expensive
so I had to go always early in the morning
and sit down on the side
and wait if someone gonna have a basketball to come play.
That place, it's very important for me,
for my family, because my dad used to play there too.
Jordi: Avenir du Rail is the basketball club
where Serge started to play basketball
and also where his dad used to play,
and some of the, his father's old teammates
were Serge's coaches as a kid.
Coach.
Ah man, this is, hey this is my coach right here.
(Speaking French)
Jordi: He started playing there,
he started learning the fundamentals
from Coach Maxime Mbochi.
It's, it's, it's been great to go back there and, and,
and see everybody,
just kind of to see where everything started.
Serge: My, my first coach in Brazzaville,
his name is Maxime Mbochi.
He used to be one of the best basketball player in Africa.
So then he used to play with my dad,
then after that he become a coach,
and then he, he was my coach when I was there too.
One of the things I always remember,
he used to tell me, never cheat, never give,
never do the shortcut,
whatever you do you have to always give your best,
never cheat because when it ca.
(Speaking French)
That's, that's is one of the reason uh,
I brought the trophy here
because I feel like they deserve it.
You know, he was my first coach.
He was the first person who teach me how to do, to shoot.
You know, he's the person who used to push me here
at the practice.
You know so I, I feel like because I'm a champion now,
he's a champion now too, you know,
and those, all those people here,
I know them since I was young,
they are the champion too, you know.
And this city, and this uh city, and this neighbourhood,
it's a champion neighbourhood now
because they love basketball, you can see.
They always come here play basketball.
So now, you know, one of them is champion,
they are champion too.
♪♪♪
My favourite memory was to grow up in Congo was this,
you know, waking up,
you know, go play basketball with my friends.
I think that's was one of my favourite moment
because that's where I was enjoying life,
that's where,
that's was the place where if I go play basketball,
I forget about, you know, everything.
You know, I forget about if I have a,
if I have sneakers or know if.
That's, that's, you know, basketball was the place
where I was finding uh, peace in mind
and just forget about all the problems is going on
in my life, just go out there.
And I used to go play basketball and spend like,
I don't know, all day out the.
♪♪♪
I think that's why it was important, you know,
to go back home to bring the camera with me
and to show people, and also you know all the,
is, is not about me, it's about to inspire
not only kids from Congo,
but everybody to say look where he come from,
you know, and if he made where he is now,
that's mean anybody can do it.
You know, anybody can do it.
So you have, you have just to believe,
and you know, keep working.
♪♪♪
It's a lot of people contribute in, in my life.
A lot of people, and I appreciate that,
and all those people contributed in my life,
you know, I always appreciate and always, you know,
respect all the people who contribute to my life,
even if it was a little bit, it was something to me,
it means something big to me.
(Cheering)
(Kids shout) Serge Ibaka!
- 1, 2, 3! - (Kids shout) Serge Ibaka!
♪♪♪
(Speaking French)
- Pavel. Pavel is my best friend.
He's one of the nicest person, you know,
uh, I have in my life. Thats father was strong.
(Speaking French)
- What I think I love about Pavel,
he used to pay for my, my bs
when my dad was in jail.
He used to give me money, you know, for dinner,
or for breakfast when he, when he had the money.
He would share his food with me when he have food.
(Speaking French)
- Even when my dad went to jail,
after he, he come back, he have no friend,
he didn't have no job.
Pavel was always around him
and the first person you see was Pavel always,
and always, no matter what,
like he always was there beside my dad.
You know, when I started my journey, I started,
I started with Pavel.
So Pavel, here you got the NBA trophy.
You wanna hold it? Be careful.
(Speaking French)
- He didn't know I would be an NBA player today
or an NBA champion.
He didn't know that.
He's, he's did that to, to us, to my family,
because he had love for my dad.
Jordi: Pavel is probably after Serge
the most things personally in the whole neighbourhood
and even in the city
so everybody kind of relies on him to,
to organize things around Serge.
- So this is where, you know, where I lived.
This is my house, we're here, we're here now.
And uh, and it's like five minutes
from where I used to go play.
So I used to walk everyday to go there.
(Signing)
That's, that's like typical in Africa.
When somebody come, come back home,
you know, after long times,
that's how, how people receive people back home.
With joy, music, dancing,
it's, and it show that everybody is happy to see you.
That's how we do it back home.
And I used, I used to do that too when I was young.
Well, in Africa I mean big family, it's, it's normal.
I have like 18 brother and sisters.
And then I have a, like four uncles,
and I have like four aunts, or six aunts,
and then each of them have like,
one of, one of, one of my uncle have nine kids,
you know, so it's become a big family.
So they, they was supporting me during the final.
They, they was staying up till like four in the morning
just to watch my games.
(Commentating in French)
(Clapping, chanting)
(Chanting)
- I wanted to bring them the t,
bring the trophy so they can see it
and take a picture of that.
I said, I wanted everybody toy
so they can have that for, with them
for the rest of their life,
because they are part of that,
and they are, they are one of the reason I never give up,
one of the reason I always push,
one of the reason I always work hard
because I wanna make, I wanna make them proud.
(Cheering, applause)
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- 'Cause a lot of people when they think about Congo,
they always think about bad situations.
Congo is, it's really, it's a really beautiful place.
And that, that's one of the reason
I always love to go back home,
like personally, it inspire me when I go back home.
People is happy.
People live their life and people, you know people,
people are thankful for that.
(Boat engine rumbles)
Man, I used to, I used to,
I used to get on those boat everyday, that's crazy.
Those big boat right here, you see.
Wow, I saw, it's, it looks so old now.
Wow.
This is why I love,
I love this, I love this, both countries,
I love those big both countries.
You know, I love.
I was go, I was born here and raised here,
but I love DRC man.
That's my mom, where she come from.
I just, I just, you know, wish we could be both,
two countries could be more connected,
you know, more together.
Because to me we are same people,
the same people, you know.
We are same people.
Basketball is going crazy in Congo
and sometimes it's funny.
Sometime, sometime I just sit d,
like wow, I can't believe it.
Sometimes I'm like, really, like this person really
taking his son to go play basketball now?
To me that's a, that's a really power,
that's a real power.
Sometime we think,
oh I have a power because I have nice cars,
I have uh, nice clothes.
No, to me that's the power.
When you can change the culture of people,
when you can change people, people mindset,
people habit, that's the power.
Because when I go back home I see people,
now everybody wanna play basketball now,
every parents want their kid to play basketball,
that's what I call the power, very power.
Changing people life,
changing people the way they .
You know, when, when I show up with the trophy here,
I already know what is gonna happen,
but I wanted, I wanted them to see it.
I want, I wanted them to see,
see it because none of us was thinking one day,
Larry, you know, the NBA trophy is gonna come to Congo.
None of us, even including myself like I say,
even including myself.
I never thought one day
I'm gonna bring that trophy here,
never.
You know, because it's like,
that's like next level, man,
of, of me coming from here,
that's was like next level.
Like anything's possible, anything, man.
♪♪♪
Jordi: I think Serge's legacy in The Congo
will be that he will always be
the first Congolese player ever in the NBA,
the first NBA champion in Congo ever,
but specially the person that came back home
and was in touch with his people,
the younger generations,
and bring change to this country,
and inspire other people to reach for their goals.
- My country can change,
people can do anything,
you know, anybody can believe anything's possible,
people can dream big.
It's no matter what, who you do, it's not matter where,
what you're doing, or where you come from, or who you are,
it don't have to be in basketball,
it can be different things,
you know, to be a doctor or lawyer,
but people can believe at them self.
Jordi: I don't know if we will have another Serge Ibaka.
It's very difficult to find somebody
that has all the elements to reach the NBA.
But for Serge to come back here,
it's not only to show his success,
but to inspire others.
Hopefully there's a way that during this week
that he's been here he has inspired at least one kid
that maybe he's the next Serge Ibaka.
Serge: You, you don't have to come from the United State
or Canada or Europe to be NBA players,
no.
You can come from Congo and be an NBA player,
and be a champion too.
♪♪♪
One, two, one, two. - Yeah, good.
- Yeah, no, they know me, I'm ju,
you know, sometime they drunk,
they're gonna forget who I am
and they're gonna bite me so, bu,
they don't do nothing, but they .
They know I'm original, man.
I'm a foozie man, 100 percent pu,
from here, that's why.
Yeah.
I did it, baby.
Oh yeah, my foozie,
by the way, I'm a foozie man, ma.
You know, I'm a, I'm a foozie ma,
I'm a 100 percent pure from the .
Yeah, that's it, that's all you .
Yes, I'm a foozie man.
But sometime they're drunk, they,
they may forget who I am, you kn.
- Somebody was trying to open these up.
If we open it and there is no tr.
- Open it, let's see that, let's.
- Let's look. - Open that one, t.
- I'm gonna buy it, don't worry.
I got money here to buy it.
Yeah. - (Clapping)
This is fun, man.
What I mean is me, a foozie,
I'm from nowhere, anybody didn't,
nobody give me a chance, nobody,
nobody believe in me.
There was, it was no way,
it was no street to walk,
I had to, I had to play for the war.
I had to walk through the war.
And this is my life, this is foo.
This here is my life, my soul.
Yeah, you know, it's not easy,
but anything is possible.