NBA Season Preview 2022-23: Every team’s current longest-tenured player
By Luke Anton
Toronto Raptors: Pascal Siakam, 6 years
As mentioned in the previous slide, Terrence Ross started out with the 2016-17 Raptors before being traded for Serge Ibaka. That means T-Ross was teammates for half of that season with a couple of Raptors rookies: Pascal Siakam and Fred VanVleet.
Siakam was the No. 27 pick in the 2016 draft while VanVleet went undrafted. Fast forward six years and the two 2018-19 NBA champions are still flourishing in Toronto. Spicy P is fresh off a third-team All-NBA selection while Freddy V just set the Raptors’ franchise record for most 3-pointers in a season.
Siakam has two years left on his current contract while FVV has one year and a player option for 2023-24, but it is widely believed that an extension will be inked in the near future.