\n\t\t\tJuly 27th 2025 at 3:54pm CST by Alex Kirschenbaum \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Former Raptors head coach Dwane Casey, now working in a front office role with Detroit, has been through several rounds of interviews about potentially filling Toronto\u2019s vacant team president role and will meet with Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment for a final round of meetings this week, writes Omari Sankofa II of The Detroit Free Press<\/a> (subscriber link).<\/p>\n In his seven seasons as a coach with the Raptors, Casey led Toronto to a 320-238 regular season regular and a 21-30 playoff record, which included an Eastern Conference Finals run in 2016.<\/p>\n There\u2019s more from around the Atlantic:<\/p>\n Eric Koreen of The Athletic<\/a> takes stock of how much the Raptors can preserve the culture the organization built under Masai Ujiri after firing the longtime team president last month. Several trusted former Ujiri associates continue to occupy major front office roles with the club, with general manager Bobby Webster in the running for Ujiri\u2019s former position. Developing international veterans, staying patient with coaches and core players, and preaching self-confidence to Toronto fans are all key Ujiri-era attributes Koreen hopes stick around.
\nWith limited spots left on their 15-man roster, the Sixers cut wing Ricky Council IV<\/a> and his non-guaranteed deal on Friday. Keith Pompey of The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a> (subscriber link) breaks down the team\u2019s decision to move on from the young guard\/forward after just two seasons. After beginning his career on a two-way contract, Council saw that deal converted to a standard agreement in April 2024. With All-Stars Tyrese Maxey<\/a>, Paul George<\/a> and Joel Embiid<\/a> all missing most of the subsequent 2024\/25 season, the Sixers were hoping to see Council grow as an athletic ball-handler and play-maker while developing his long-range game, Pompey writes. Instead, he struggled to score efficiently or control the rock. In 73 healthy games for Philadelphia last year, the 6\u20196\u2033 pro averaged 7.3 points, 2.9 rebounds, and 1.3 assists per contest, with a shooting line of .382\/.258\/.804. The Sixers now have two open roster spots, with restricted free agent Quentin Grimes<\/a> likely to fill one of them.
\nRestricted free agent Nets shooting guard Cam Thomas<\/a> remains unsigned nearly four weeks into the 2025\/26 league year. Anthony Puccio of NetsDaily<\/a> analyzes the standoff, and makes the case for retaining one of the team\u2019s most exciting and prolific young scorers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 27th 2025 at 3:54pm CST by Alex Kirschenbaum Former Raptors head coach Dwane Casey, now working in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,14714,48,22327,22328,22329,82],"class_list":["post-28388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-cam-thomas","tag-canada","tag-dwane-casey","tag-masai-ujiri","tag-ricky-council","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}