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The Raptors’ loss of Serge Ibaka leaves a big hole, on the court and off

The chance of the Raptors getting a new, impact face for their frontcourt in free agency has dwindled to nothing but there remain options — familiar, mostly — to fill a major void.

They have lost out on retaining Serge Ibaka, which may not be a calamity but it certainly can’t be spun as good news, and they are getting close to being in scramble mode with the pickings getting slimmer by the hour.

“All will be well,” a highly placed team source said Sunday morning, but that may be as much wishful thinking as anything.