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Yahoo
12 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Masai Ujiri out as Raptors president in shocking move days before start of NBA free agency: 'I just fell to my knees'
The Toronto Raptors and longtime team president Masai Ujiri have gone their separate ways. Ujiri was reportedly set to enter the upcoming season in the final year of a five-year contract he signed in 2021. The somewhat shocking move, first reported by ESPN's Shams Charania, comes right before the opening of NBA free agency on Monday and a day after the conclusion of the 2025 NBA Draft. Charania took to X — formerly Twitter — to break the news on Friday morning. Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment and Masai Ujiri have decided to part ways, as Ujiri was entering the final year of his contract, sources tell ESPN. — Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 27, 2025 In a statement, Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE) president and CEO Keith Pelley praised Ujiri for his leadership and for leading the Raptors to their first and only NBA title in 2019. However, he did not get into specifics as to why the move was made, or why it was made now. "During his 13 seasons with the Raptors, Masai has helped transform the organization on the court and has been an inspirational leader off it," Pelley wrote. "He brought an NBA Championship to Toronto and urged us to believe in this city, and ourselves. We are grateful for all he has done and wish him and his family the very best. As we plan for the franchise's future, and its return to the NBA Playoffs, a search for the successor as president of the Raptors, led by CAA Executive Search, will begin immediately." The team looking to replace Ujiri is a bit of a surprise. Pelley recently fired Toronto Maple Leafs president Brendan Shanahan back in May and indicated that rather than replacing him, Pelley instead would be working closer with Maple Leafs GM Bred Treliving, who will now report to directly to Pelley. It was widely speculated amongst media pundits and insiders that the same structure would be implemented if a similar move was made with the Raptors. Instead, according to Pelley, general manager Bobby Webster — who reportedly just signed a contract extension — will guide the team into free agency and beyond while Pelley and Co. search for Ujiri's replacement. "We are confident that the Raptors organization, under the guidance of Bobby [Webster] and his team, is in a great place," Pelley said. "They have a plan in place for next season and beyond as the team continues its rebuild, and we have confidence in their ability to execute and, ultimately, to excel. We feel the team is in a strong, stable place, and we believe the addition of a new president will continue to move the Raptors forward, towards our next NBA championship." Many who have covered the team and are in the know, however, aren't so sure Pelley and MLSE will be replacing Ujiri anytime soon — if at all. Make no mistake, MLSE is in a cost-cutting mode. Not going full scale cheap, but not looking to spend huge money on execs. That's significant part of reason Shanahan and Ujiri are out. — Ryan Wolstat (@WolstatSun) June 27, 2025 Don't be surprised if Bobby Webster is presented with a contract extension. Sense for months has been that MLSE would operate without team presidents. And then it began: Bill Manning the first to go (Argos/TFC), then Shanahan, now Ujiri. Those roles unlikely to be replaced. — Arash Madani (@ArashMadani) June 27, 2025 Masai Ujiri is out as president and heart and soul of the Toronto Raptors. This is a large mistake by Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment. You don't find people of this quality often. — Steve Simmons (@simmonssteve) June 27, 2025 The parent company of the Raptors, Maple Leafs, Toronto Argonauts, Toronto FC and others has brought out the axe in recent months, discarding every major team president and cutting nearly 10 per cent of its workforce since Rogers Communications became MLSE majority owner in a deal approved earlier this month worth $4.7 billion. The firing of Ujiri in particular, especially the strange timing of it, shocked many Raptors fans and media pundits who took to social media to express their disbelief. I just fell to my knees at Tim Hortons over this Masai Ujiri Raptors news — tigallo (@soulqrn) June 27, 2025 This was about 60 hours ago, with Masai Ujiri welcoming Collin Murray-Boyles to Toronto. Surprising timing, to say the — Adam Laskaris (@adam_la2karis) June 27, 2025 We knew this was coming.. however it's the timing that throws it off. Ujiri was the last standing team president at MLSE. — Kayla Grey (@Kayla_Grey) June 27, 2025 Wait why would the Raptors get rid of Masai Ujiri the day AFTER the draft? As a former employee of MLSE (Leafs and Raptors) there's a larger story here I'll bet you anything and leave it at that. — Julian (@julians_world) June 27, 2025 As everyone is saying the timing of this doesn't make sense. Concerned about the direction MLSE (Rogers) is taking our sports teams 🤔Thank you Masai Ujiri for giving our city a championship team that wewill always celebrate and be proud of. #WeTheNorth #LTL1917 — LadiesTalkinLeafs (@LTL1917) June 27, 2025 James Dolan-level incompetence by MLSE is my initial reaction. The timing and manner of firing Masai Ujiri is bad and incompetent, on top of the actual firing being a bad move. Nepo baby Ed Rogers' hands are all over this, trust. — Late stage capitalism hater 🇨🇦 (@CanadaFirst25) June 27, 2025 Not entirely surprising given Ujiri's contractual situation and the recent changes atop MLSE, but very strange timing; the morning after the draft. — Josh Lewenberg (@JLew1050) June 27, 2025 There's got to be more to this Masai Ujiri story the timing is just too wild — KEV. (@bucklezzzman) June 27, 2025 As the dust settled on the shock factor and the odd timing of it all, many Raptors fans took to social media to give Ujiri his flowers and praise the man who oversaw, by far, the greatest decade-plus in franchise history. The Raptors posted an exceptional 545-419 record under Ujiri since 2013-14, which is the fifth-best in the mark in the NBA over that time, according to Sportsnet, and of course helped secure the team's first and only NBA championship in 2019. The team also hit the 50-wins five times during Ujiri's 12 seasons with the club and qualified for the NBA layoffs in eight of those campaigns. Though success in recent years has been waning, it was an absolutely legendary run for arguably the best executive in the history of Toronto professional sports. No sports exec (in my lifetime) has the recognition, respect and approval rating that Masai Ujiri has in Toronto. Unsure that's ever going to change — Armen Zargarian (@armenzarg) June 27, 2025 When you think about how basketball has grown so much in Canada, Masai Ujiri will go down in the history books for playing a massive part in that. The Toronto Raptors were a laughing stock for years and he helped change that. Salute to him. — Libaan Osman (@libaanstar1) June 27, 2025 thank u Masai Ujiri for bringing opportunities to those around the world to join our league, u rlly made a difference in basketball and im srry for blaming u for everything all the time even when i stubbed my toe on that corner yesterday that was totally not ur fault — char (@govassignedgoth) June 27, 2025 An image that felt impossible when Masai Ujiri joined the RaptorsThe end of an era 🙏 — Jacob Gramegna (@jacob_gramegna) June 27, 2025 Ujiri turned the Raptors into a world-class organization, shifting the way teams/players/fans view Toronto. But his legacy is the way he changed how this market views itself. His pride/passion for team/city/country. How he lifted it up. We The North. Thats how he'll be remembered — Josh Lewenberg (@JLew1050) June 27, 2025 No one person in history of the franchise did more to legitimize the Toronto Raptors as an organization than Masai changed the culture, embraced Toronto and gave a city so desperate for a winner the championship that eluded them for nearly 30 will be missed. — Mike Beauvais (@MikeBeauvais) June 27, 2025 End of an era, thank you Masai 2019 forever — kishan (@_kishanmistry) June 27, 2025 End of an era. Thank you, Masai — Matt Tierney (@Tierchild) June 27, 2025 Impossible to overstate what Masai means to the city. We achieved heights I literally did not think were possible as the lone Canadian franchise in the NBA. I don't know if we'll ever have another leader as impressive and passionate to represent us as him. Can't thank him enough. — K. –– Free Iran (@ThatPersianGuy) June 27, 2025 Ujiri was hired as Raptors vice-president and general manager back in 2013 to replace the maligned Bryan Colangelo and immediately helped turn the team into a consistent threat in the Eastern Conference with the team qualifying for the postseasons in seven straight seasons between 2013 and 2020. Ujiri was promoted to team president in 2016 and Webster took over the GM role in 2017. Ujiri's most notorious move was the infamous trade in the summer of 2018 that brought superstar Kawhi Leonard to the organization in exchange for franchise legend DeMar DeRozan — essentially paving the way for Toronto's championship run that same season. It's expected Ujiri will be coveted by plenty of NBA organizations and likely won't be out of work for long if he so chooses.
National Post
14 hours ago
- Business
- National Post
SIMMONS: Firing Masai Ujiri is a huge mistake by MLSE
You don't fire Masai Ujiri. Not now. Not ever. You don't sack this man of integrity and character, who changed basketball in Canada, who changed the way in which the Raptors are perceived, who brought a certain cachet to the sport, his love of Africa and his pride in everything that is Canadian basketball. You don't fire him. Not under these murky and unspoken circumstances. Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment CEO Keith Pelley couldn't easily explain why Ujiri was being let go Friday as president of the Raptors. Instead, he clumsily tripped over words that made no sense, answering little that was asked directly about the dismissal of the most important Raptor in the history of the franchise. Sounding more Peddie than Pelley, the CEO went through the how's and why's of Ujiri being replaced without ever really explaining why. What made less sense: Ujiri is out as president and he will be eventually replaced, Bobby Webster has a new deal as general manager and the front office staff of the Raptors has been retained. 'Change,' said Pelley, 'is inevitable. Thirteen seasons is a long time in a sports leadership role.' And then he explained what needed further explanation. He let Ujiri work the NBA draft for Toronto, knowing he was leaving the franchise. And that makes no sense. If he was being pushed out, they should have done so before the draft, not after it. And if the franchise isn't in great shape leadership-wise, why fire the president but retain the general manager and not only retain the GM, but extend him. All of this happening with Ujiri having one year remaining on his contact, due a 2% raise this coming season, and with a $1-million payment due to Giants of Africa, Ujiri's charity, very shortly. Pelley insisted the decision to fire Ujiri was his. Others outside the organization are not so convinced. 'Edward Rogers did this,' said a basketball insider. 'He doesn't like Masai. If Larry Tanenbaum was still in charge, Masai would still be running the Raptors.' It was Masai's way — his way or the highway — in his 13 years on the job. And many memories of all that made him different and special. ♦ ♦ ♦ In his first summer on the job in 2013, before the Raptors had played a single game under his leadership, Ujiri flew to Philadelphia for only one reason. He wanted to meet Kyle Lowry and get to know him — and find out whether he was worth keeping. He also wanted to shake him up just a little. 'How do you want to be perceived in the NBA?' he asked Lowry rather pointedly. Because back then, Ujiri suggested to the veteran point guard, you're wasting your career and most people look at you as a loser. The two went at it chapter and verse. With Ujiri tearing into Lowry, and Lowry from a position of weakness, trying to fight back. Whatever it was, Ujiri wasn't convinced he had a winner in Lowry. A few months after that, he thought he had a deal made to send Lowry to the New York Knicks. The deal was agreed upon along with the notion the Raptors would tank the season, looking to draft Canadian Andrew Wiggins in the first round of 2014. But the owner of the Knicks, James Dolan, called the deal off. The tanking of that season never happened. The Raptors won 48 games, the first of seven straight seasons making the playoffs. Lowry, the born hot-head, became the unlikely leader and best player for the Raptors. He would later attribute his change in career success to everything Masai had done for him. And the two even worked through and lived though a season in which they barely spoke to each other. Ujiri had traded Lowry's best friend, DeMar DeRozan, to San Antonio in a franchise-altering deal for Kawhi Leonard. He made the deal while telling DeRozan he wasn't going to trade him. Lowry, who had difficulty seeing beyond his own nose at times, didn't recognize he was playing for the best team of his time in Toronto. The two made up before the championship celebration in June of 2019. Lowry is expected to be the next Raptor to have his jersey retired by the team. A long time after having lunch — and being scolded — in Philadelphia. ♦ ♦ ♦ Leonard wanted to be traded — just not to Toronto. Not to Canada. Not to anywhere cold. Not to anywhere where he didn't have approval of his destination. The first time Leonard met with Ujiri after the deal for DeRozan was done, he asked a rather pointed question to Masai. 'Why did you trade for me?' said Leonard, who had played just nine games the year before the Spurs. Ujiri answered rather quickly: 'Because I think you're the best player in the NBA.' For a few seconds, there was just silence, which is something you come to expect being around Leonard, who was staring at Ujiri. And Ujiri was staring right back at Leonard. That year, with load management factoring into everything the Raptors did, Kawhi played just 60 regular season games for Toronto, hit the shot of all shots to win a playoff series against Philadelphia, had an incredible double overtime playoff win on an injured leg against Milwaukee and was named Finals MVP when the Raptors beat Golden State for their only NBA championship. Leonard had proven to be what Ujiri told he was when he first acquired him. When he played, he was the best player in the NBA. The Raptors will forever have a championship with his autograph all over it. The trade no one saw coming — the great gamble sending an established star in DeRozan for the question that was Leonard — proved to be the best work of Ujiri's time with the Raptors. ♦ ♦ ♦ The Raptors won 59 games in 2018, the most wins in franchise history. Before that, coach Dwane Casey had a tremendous run of 48-49-56-51 wins. That year, he was named coach of the year. The league named him that. On his own team, from his own manager, there were questions. By the time the playoffs ended that season, Casey and Ujiri were no longer speaking to each other. The animosity of year-after-year playoff failures — most of it coming against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers — had hardened both men. Casey was named coach of the year and Ujiri did what has almost never been done in basketball history. He fired the coach of the year. He thought Casey had taken the team as far as he could. Ujiri had a coach in mind to replace Casey, but Mike Budenholzer wound up in Milwaukee instead of Toronto. In what seemed like a guess at the time — who knew, really? — Ujiri hired assistant coach Nick Nurse to replace the coach of the year Casey. Nurse had been on almost no one's radar around the NBA. He'd kicked around basketball circles forever as an assistant or minor league head coach. This was his first chance at head coaching in the NBA. He distinguished himself early on as the Raptors won the title in 2019. Nurse lasted five seasons in Toronto with a .582 winning percentage and coaching in 41 playoff games. He was let go at the end of the 2023 season, when he and Ujiri seemed philosophically heading in different directions. ♦ ♦ ♦ I can still smell the locker room from the celebration of 2019 in Oakland. That stays with you after all these years. There was champagne spraying. There was plastic covering everywhere you looked. There were safety goggles if you wanted to protect your eyes. And everywhere, there was champagne spraying. It's the kind of smell you never forget and the soaking wet Raptors were engaging in hugs and high-fives and family photos for anyone who was there. Masai Ujiri couldn't have been prouder that night, even if he later talked about being assaulted. We sat with him in what was probably the quietest corner of all the bedlam after the Raptors championship victory over the Golden State Warriors. He cried a little bit, he smiled a lot, he seemed to enjoy being surrounded by the media people who had either become friends or advocates or critics or all of that over the years. That's what happens when you cover a team honestly. There are good days and there are bad days and there are good relationships and bad relationships and often with the same people. Masai had promised a championship when he first came to Toronto. Sometimes it sounds like predictable rhetoric when you hear that kind of talk. From him, though, coming to Toronto, coming to a place known for NBA failure, coming to a place where being irrelevant was just part of the show, he sounded more believable than the usual salesman stuff you hear. And I reminded him of that in the winning locker room. 'You told us this was coming and we didn't believe you,' I remember saying to Masai. He told us to 'f— Brooklyn. He sold us on We The North. We taught us about belief and hope, trust and care. And every time I saw him and spoke to him, spent any time with him, it didn't matter the circumstances, that proved to be a better day. The championship in 2019 was his first. It wouldn't be his last, he said. One day, the next one may come. Just not here. Not anymore. Word began to spread Friday morning that Ujiri was out as Raptors president, weeks after first learning about it. Twenty-six years after the Blue Jays won their second World Series, the Raptors had a title to call their own. Three titles for Toronto in North America's big four sports. In 129 seasons of combined NHL hockey, NBA basketball and Major League Baseball since the Maple Leafs last won the Stanley Cup and Toronto arrived on the scene, the Raptors had their own championship. A championship written and directed by Masai Ujiri. A championship celebrated all across Canada, never to be forgotten again. ssimmons@ X: @simmonssteve ssimmons@
New York Times
17 hours ago
- Business
- New York Times
Raptors' firing of Masai Ujiri leaves MLSE's priorities open to questioning
TORONTO — Forget about his official title, which subtly changed on occasion, during his 12-year run in charge of the Toronto Raptors. Masai Ujiri was the president of vibes. Not to belittle the team-building work he did with the franchise, because much of that was excellent. Most of Ujiri's signature moments with the Raptors, though, can be captured with his one-liners: 'F— Brooklyn.' Advertisement 'We don't give a s— about it,'' he once said of the trolling Paul Pierce. 'We will win in Toronto.' 'Believe in this city. Believe in yourselves.' 'We will win again in Toronto.' Ujiri won his news conferences. For the Raptors and their fans, that was meaningful. In a league defined by star players and glamourous markets, the Raptors needed someone who exuded confidence about the team and a city that should be seen as world-class. That Ujiri treated the Raptors' job as a big one, and the franchise as a potential league cornerstone, was new. Ujiri oozed confidence and ambition. In announcing Ujiri's firing on Friday — and yes, firing is the correct word — the Raptors seem as adrift and unstable as they have in a long while. Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment CEO Keith Pelley explained the move by saying that Ujiri's tenure was long, change is inevitable and the franchise is stable with the rest of its front-office structure, coaching staff and roster largely in place. That would make sense, except all of that would be a reason to keep the person who allowed for those conditions. Instead, Pelley and Edward Rogers, the executive chair of the MLSE board of directors, have introduced a new level of uncertainty to the team. The bit about inevitability was on point, especially in this case: Ujiri and Rogers, who emerged as the most powerful person in the organization when his company bought out Bell to become MLSE's majority shareholder last year, do not have a good relationship. Ujiri and Larry Tanenbaum, the long-time powerbroker within MLSE, are very close. Meanwhile, Rogers was the loudest objector to the Raptors giving Ujiri a new five-year deal in 2021. Ujiri said his relationship with Rogers was fine and not an obstacle for him a few times since the change in ownership structure, but it never rang completely true. Advertisement It turns out Ujiri got to serve out four of those years. Rogers likely wanted to firm up a top-down power structure, and Ujiri was never going to feel as beholden to Rogers as a new hire would. However, the move will invite cynicism and doubt from Raptors fans, especially given the strange timing of the move and Rogers' lacking Q rating. 'When you create a brand, when you create a culture, if it is mitigated when that individual is no longer involved, then the culture and the brand has not been created in the right way,' Pelley said when asked if he was worried about the Raptors' losing some of their lustre upon Ujiri leaving. 'And I believe that the way that he has built the brand and the way that he has created the culture is something that we as an organization at MLSE cherish and need now to build upon, and that will be something critical for the next president coming in.' Pelley said he and Ujiri had been talking about the executive's future for the last few months. According to Pelley, Ujiri requested he be able to run the draft if a change was going to ultimately be made, even though the franchise extended the contracts of general manager Bobby Webster, assistant general manager Dan Tolzman and would be looking to hire a new president, a role for which Webster will be interviewed. Pelley said the new president will focus solely on basketball, not business. To be sure, all of that is odd, with Pelley saying only that Ujiri was told of the change earlier in the month. It is not as if MLSE couldn't have made a compelling results-based argument to go in a new direction. That just isn't how Pelley worded things — likely for obvious reasons. One of those reasons: The Raptors' 2019 championship will live forever, and Ujiri is justifiably beloved for bringing Toronto its first major championship since the Blue Jays won back-to-back World Series titles in 1992 and 1993. (The MLS' Toronto FC, CFL's Toronto Argonauts and NLL's Toronto Rock, among others, all won titles between those years and the Raptors' 2019 championship.) Advertisement The risk of the trade for Kawhi Leonard is perhaps overstated — the Raptors, led by DeMar DeRozan, Kyle Lowry and Dwane Casey, had become intimately acquainted with their ceiling over the previous few years — but even admitting that it was time to try something new and importing a star who did not want to be in Toronto was gutsy. Ujiri needed luck, including some from an especially friendly cylinder, for the Raptors to capitalize on that one-year window, but luck is always part of the equation. That Leonard still went home after that year to play for the LA Clippers stung Ujiri, but that made the title even more miraculous in hindsight, given Leonard wasn't all-in on the franchise. That banner is as much Ujiri's as anybody else's. Before the league's recent run of parity, winning a title in a comparatively second-tier market and without a homegrown superstar was considered one of the most difficult things to accomplish in North American professional sports. Ujiri putting that team together will go down as one of the greatest feats in the city's sports history. Bringing an All-Star Game and an excellent practice facility to Toronto will further enhance his legacy. He clearly wanted to establish the Raptors as a marquee franchise, and that is where Ujiri failed. In fairness, that is very difficult to do. At low ebbs, even the likes of the Los Angeles Lakers, New York Knicks and Boston Celtics have not been able to sit down with the best available players. Those teams have fewer obstacles to regaining that status at any given time, but no team has a permanent 'We're special' card. Still, Ujiri leaving at this point has to be tough for him, as the Raptors' post-championship run has been bumpy. His pursuit of Giannis Antetokounmpo almost immediately followed that championship run, as, following Leonard's departure, the Raptors refused to take on multi-year contracts, keeping the possibility of bringing the Bucks star to Toronto alive. Antetokounmpo has never reached free agency, signing two extensions with Milwaukee in the interim. Ujiri and Antetokounmpo have a close relationship, and the Raptors could still try to trade for him should the Bucks ever make him available, but they will no longer have Ujiri to sell the franchise. It is unclear how effectively Ujiri was ever able to do that within the league, even as he won over the team's fans with his passion. With the memory of the Leonard trade (and his quick departure) always lingering, the Raptors have repeatedly been considered a dark-horse candidate for many unhappy stars — Kevin Durant (multiple times) and Damian Lillard, to name a few. Due to a combination of not having enough assets and not garnering the interest of the stars, Ujiri wasn't able to take his second memorable home-run hack. At the time and now, the Brandon Ingram trade in February looked like a rushed, pale imitation of such a gambit. That he also couldn't keep the last remnants of the Raptors' championship core together and happy should also hang on Ujiri. He could never quite understand what happened as the teams led by Pascal Siakam, Fred VanVleet, O.G. Anunoby and Nick Nurse unravelled. It was his job to keep the group united, and a lot of important franchise figures left the city with hurt feelings (but fat new contracts). With that in mind, Ujiri leaves the Raptors in a place he promised they would never be when he first took the job in 2013 — the mushy middle of the league. The 'stability' Pelley frequently cited is a euphemism for something much more damning. The Raptors are expensive for a team that has not played a playoff game since 2022 and lack a surefire All-Star, let alone a superstar. Ujiri promised a patient rebuild after the departures of Siakam and Anunoby two seasons ago, but the Raptors got antsy quickly. There are reasons for optimism, but Ujiri leaves the Raptors with no clear North Star. Advertisement Still, Ujiri provided assurances of ambition for Raptors fans. Under Ujiri, the Raptors might fail, but they would be aiming for the top. On the other hand, Rogers reportedly was a leading voice in stopping MLSE from acquiring an expansion WNBA team, eventually brought to Toronto with Tanenbaum at the helm. Rogers' distaste for Ujiri's 2021 deal also presents some worries, even if you were more skeptical of Ujiri's track record than most within the league. Coaching and front-office contracts do not count against any cap and luxury tax, and are among the clearest ways a franchise can outspend its competition without facing team-building consequences. There were basketball reasons for the firing, but keeping the rest of his team in place suggests basketball wasn't top of mind in the decision. MLSE, in its current iteration, will have to show fans that it is willing to attack winning in the same way that Ujiri preached. If not, outsiders will rightly characterize the new ownership group as more concerned with profits than wins. That could never be said about Ujiri. He wanted to win with the Raptors, sometimes too badly. At once, his approach could be noble and short-sighted. You never had to guess at what was guiding him, though.
Edmonton Journal
17 hours ago
- Business
- Edmonton Journal
MASAI UJIRI EXITS RAPTORS: ‘Change is never easy'
Article content WATCH: MLSE President and CEO, Keith Pelley addresses media a following the departure of Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri. What do YOU think? Article content Article content Latest National Stories
Toronto Sun
17 hours ago
- Business
- Toronto Sun
MASAI UJIRI EXITS RAPTORS: ‘Change is never easy'
MLSE President and CEO, Keith Pelley addresses media at the Scotiabank Arena following the departure of Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri in Toronto, Ont. on Friday June 27, 2025. Ernest Doroszuk/Toronto Sun/Postmedia WATCH: MLSE President and CEO, Keith Pelley addresses media a following the departure of Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri. What do YOU think? Tell us your thoughts in the comment section below or send us a Letter to the Editor for possible publication to . Letters must be 250 words or less and signed. And don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube Channel. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Canada Music Toronto Maple Leafs Toronto Raptors Toronto Raptors
