{"id":572919,"date":"2026-03-31T13:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/572919\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:02:10","slug":"masai-ujiri-joins-ownership-group-of-wnbas-toronto-tempo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/572919\/","title":{"rendered":"Masai Ujiri joins ownership group of WNBA&#8217;s Toronto Tempo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Masai Ujiri is returning to professional basketball in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The longtime basketball executive is joining the WNBA\u2019s Toronto Tempo\u2019s ownership group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ujiri was an executive with the Toronto Raptors for 12 years, becoming its team president in 2016 and building the roster that won the 2019 NBA championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He parted ways with the Raptors last June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ujiri joins an ownership group that includes Maple Leaf Sport &amp; Entertainment board member Larry Tanenbaum, tennis superstar Serena Williams, and Montreal Canadiens owner Geoff Molson among others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He says he has been focusing on Giants of Africa, a charity he co-founded that\u2019s dedicated to bringing basketball to Africa, since he left the Raptors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 31, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Masai Ujiri is returning to professional basketball in Toronto. The longtime basketball executive is joining the WNBA\u2019s Toronto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-572919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572919","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=572919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}