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The Woj Pod

Toronto President Masai Ujiri

The Woj Pod

ESPN

Sports

4.6722 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri joins The Woj Pod to discuss the NBA's restart in Orlando, his global perspective on America and race, solutions for so few black executives in the NBA, how President Obama and Prime Minister Trudeau impact his thinking and how that Raptors championship impacted his life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome into Masai O'Jerry, the president of the defending champion, Toronto Raptors.

0:09.7

I see him smile.

0:11.0

When I say that, June 18th, 2020, you might have imagined Maasai that maybe somebody wouldn't still be calling you the president of the defending champion,

0:24.4

but you're going to hold out of that title at least for a few more months.

0:27.4

You know, thanks, thanks, George.

0:28.3

Thanks for having me.

0:33.2

I want to hold on to it as long as I can, but I also want us to get back to basketball pretty quick here.

0:39.2

It's a great title to have. It's been fun.

0:43.8

Masai, the last several months you have been, you know, as an all, I think as an alternate

0:50.9

governor, one of the governors in Toronto, as a member of the competition committee,

0:57.5

which is a group of, there's some owners, there's a couple owners, there's presidents, GM's coaches,

1:05.3

which meet and talk about and work through a lot of these big issues.

1:10.3

There's a GM committee that Bobby Webster, your GM is on, but, and your relationship with

1:16.6

Adam Silver, how have you seen over the last several months, maybe the adaptability or how

1:22.9

the NBA different organizations, ownership groups, the management side, the commissioner's office.

1:31.7

How have you seen everybody work together through this crisis?

1:35.5

You know, it's been really, really unique, you know, and I think Adam has done an incredible

1:43.4

job in bringing people together.

1:46.8

So whether it's owners, players, general managers, presidents, I think even the marketing

1:55.8

side, the PR side, there are so many committees that have put their heads together with this thing.

2:03.4

And I think everybody has had a stake in it.

2:07.0

Honestly, it's such a difficult time to navigate.

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