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Drake bids heartfelt goodbye to Masai Ujiri after Raptors fire team president

Article content Themed ' Welcome Toronto ' nights also occur throughout the season in which Drake's logo appears on the court. Article content As part of the partnership, Drake and the team have donated over a million dollars to help refurbish local community basketball courts and have invested heavily in Canada Basketball to help grow the sport across the country. Article content 'It's nice to have the uniforms and the fancy court and the merchandise and stuff like that, but what was most important to me was just the call to action,' Drake said in 2018. 'In this day and age, it's really easy to go on social media and talk about things that we'd like to see change or things that we think are wrong, then there's an opportunity, when you're presented with one, to be able to do something about it. Article content 'The biggest thing I'm most proud of with this partnership is the million dollars that we're going to be giving to the city to redo these courts and, hopefully, to create an amazing atmosphere for anyone in that community to come out and either play casual basketball or potentially breed the next generation of Canadian basketball superstars, which goes to our other donation of $2 million to Canada Basketball who have produced incredible talent.' Article content Article content With the stands closed on-and-off during the pandemic, Drake was one of the few hundred fans that was allowed in the Scotiabank Arena during parts of the 2021-22 season. Article content Article content Pelley was asked about a rumoured rift between Ujiri and Edward Rogers, the executive chair of Rogers Communications, the majority owner of MLSE, but he said the decision to fire the popular exec was his alone. Article content 'At the end of the day, this was my decision, supported by the board,' he told the Sun's Steve Simmons. Article content