The Wizards have “no imminent plans” to make an offer to Raptors president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri, tweets Candace Buckner of The Washington Post. A source close to the organization is downplaying reports that Washington will offer Ujiri up to $10MM a season to run the front office.
The Wizards have not named a new permanent head of basketball operations since Ernie Grunfeld was dismissed in April. There was a failed attempt last month to lure Nuggets president Tim Connelly, but otherwise the search for a new executive has been quiet, leading to speculation that the Wizards were waiting for the NBA Finals to end so they could make a play for Ujiri.
Ujiri was considered among the league’s top executives even before adding an NBA title to his resume last night. He built successful teams in Denver prior to coming to Toronto and transforming that team into a championship contender through a series of bold moves.
Ujiri is also under contract for the next two seasons, meaning the Raptors could demand compensation from any team that tries to poach him. Fred Katz of The Athletic recently noted that Toronto set the price at two first-round picks when Ujiri had discussions with the Knicks a few seasons ago.
Larry Tanenbaum, owner of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, the parent company of the Raptors, told Michael Grange of Rogers Sportsnet last night that he’s not worried about losing Ujiri (Twitter link).
“I know Masai. He’s like my son. There’s no chance he’s leaving Toronto,” Tanenbaum said. “… I think if you ask Masai, he’s got everything he wants.”
Now that he punched him in the face I doubt they want to pay him $10 million to be suspended for a year LOL
LOL he didn’t punch anybody in the face and if he did, it was well deserved. Your fat white American cops are always power tripping. Let them get a taste of their medicine. That cop deserved to get the living hell beat outta him. Let’s go Raptors!!!!
If a skinny Oakland melted snowflake loser like urself got the crap beat outta him most of the country should cheer
You believe lies. Almost all the police brutality media hyped cases are justified. Cops aren’t horrible people. And way to act like all cops are white
Toronto fans = classless
This is a sports thread. Take your racial hate to Twitter.
You can love the blue and still acknowledge that they are often out of control. This protest lead to the advent of body cams, which have revealed way too many truths in the USA. Back the Blue, but demand supervision of your employees.
Get him red