Oklahoma City star forward Serge Ibaka may have just a little bit more motivation going for him as the NBA playoffs open this weekend.

JocksandStilettoJill.com reports the fifth-year veteran forward and R&B diva girlfriend Keri Hilson have patched up their once doomed relationship and are back together again.

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Earlier this week, Ibaka took to Instagram to post the pic and caption "had to get my girl back." Several media outlets previously reported the two had split sometime around the new year and Hilson had hinted she planned to use some of her painful experiences as material for her next album.

"Sometimes God answers your prayers with an unfavorable outcome," she tweeted back then. "Thank him for those too! You don't know what He's doing. I'm tired of talking. My gift speaks louder."

Through the good times, Hilson and Ibaka often seemed inseparable, with Hilson reportedly splitting all her time between her Atlanta home and Oklahoma City.

Serge Ibaka, Keri Hilson break up?

In yet another blues-filled tweet she posted "the secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

By now all seems forgiven, and just in time for the playoffs.

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