One more thing, Masai Jiri now the Dallas Mavericks team president and alternate governor.

I got the guy that covered him in Toronto to tell us exactly who is a Maasai guy, why he got fired, and all kinds of things. Let's go. And welcome. You're still locked on to the Dallas Mavericks, your team every day. My name is Nick Engsen. Today's episode brought to you by Fanduel. Right now you can bet just $5 if you win. You get $150 and bonus bets.

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I'm joined by Sean Woodley from Locked-on Raptors to talk about Masayu Jiri.

Because what timing for us to learn about Masai Jiri getting hired than we were on the plane,

on the way to an undisclosed location in Utah.

If you could find us, you win a prize, I guess.

Does somebody know the, like the rock feature behind us? Just stuff by heart? There were several guesses yesterday on the YouTube channel, and they were both wrong. So they said some other place, and that place is like five hours away from... Well, don't narrow it down too much. But if they... But that was my point, is if they could find us, then you win a prize.

That'd be incredible.

You could find us, then you win a prize.

That would be incredible.

You could find by just this rock formation, this green screen behind us.

You can, you win.

And congrats on your new job with the National Geological Service.

That's why we're here.

We're mapping all the rocks.

Yes. Sean Woodley. Missai Ujiri. Host Locked on Raptors. How long have you been covering the Raptors? Ten years? 11 years? Too long. Most of the time Missou Jerry was with the Raptors. Wrote a book that I own on the Raptors Championship run. Thank you for the patronage. Incredible work. And so I thought nobody better to talk about And it's just so happens

We were in the same place

No one better or no one more convenient? There was a convenience level. There was a convenience level for this guest booking. But the intern did a good job. Got you got you on. Tell me about Masayu Jiri. What he built in Toronto, I think, was impressive. I think the run to the championship, the bet on Kauai, when you look back at that run, especially that team, what is the mark that Maasai made on that team in that group? I mean, I think the thing is, before Maasai got there in 2013, the Raptors were like the biggest joke that there was. They were a franchise that, frankly, just was like never realistically going to win a championship. I had kind of resigned myself to that fact. And even after he showed up, it was like, oh, cool fun basketball. They're winning games. This is never going to go anywhere like real because it's the Toronto Raptors. Did you feel at the level of the Sacramento Kings or was there still like a... Not quite as like sad and depressed.

Just more boring and kind of irrelevant. But, yeah, like, it's just, it was a franchise in a league where not every team is ever going to win a championship, right? Like, it goes to a select few franchises a decade and never thought the Raptors would be one of those. And then Misaitis kind of came in and switched the culture. He really invested in like the grassroots

around the team. He was instrumental in launching the Raptors 905, which became such a

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