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Masai Ujiri will stay in Toronto after agreeing to an extension to become the Vice Chairman and President of the Toronto Raptors, per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Ujiri spent the last four seasons as the team’s President after relinquishing his general manager duties – a position he held from when he arrived in Toronto in 2013 until 2017 – to Bobby Webster ahead of the 2017-18 NBA season.
ESPN Sources: Masai Ujiri – architect of the 2019 champions– has agreed to a significant new deal to become Vice Chairman!President of the Toronto Raptors. Ujiri continues as both Raptors top basketball/business executive and a global philanthropist through his Giants of Africa.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) August 5, 2021
Webster, along with head coach Nick Nurse, signed multi-year contract extensions during the 2020-21 season.