{"id":575025,"date":"2026-04-01T11:20:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575025\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:20:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:20:28","slug":"masai-ujiri-joins-wnba-expansion-team-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575025\/","title":{"rendered":"Masai Ujiri joins WNBA Expansion Team Ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Tuesday, 31 March 2026 14:21\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__author\">\n                        By Noah Paradis\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/mmo.aiircdn.com\/45\/69cbefa662a94.jfif\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Photo provided by Toronto Tempo X page<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The former Raptors GM is staying in Toronto&#8230;. but not with the Raptors.\n        <\/p>\n<p>TORONTO &#8211; Masai Ujiri is returning to professional basketball in Toronto, but it&#8217;s not for the Raptors.<\/p>\n<p>Ujiri joined the ownership group of the WNBA&#8217;s Toronto Tempo. He is joining Maple Leaf Sport &amp; Entertainment board member Larry Tanenbaum, tennis superstar Serena Williams, and Montreal Canadiens owner Geoff Molson, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Ujiri served as an executive for the Toronto Raptors from 2013 to 2025, where he helped bring a title in 2019 and won the NBA&#8217;s Executive of the Year award in 2023. He is playing a key role in developing a new coaching mentorship program called Tempo Rising, which will empower women-identifying and non-binary coaches through mentorship, hands-on experience and by developing the tools to shape basketball in their communities.<\/p>\n<p>The Tempo are a brand new team, and they have an expansion draft that is happening on Friday. They are slated to play their first regular-season game on May 8 at Coca-Cola Coliseum against the Washington Mystics.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 31 March 2026 14:21 By Noah Paradis Photo provided by Toronto Tempo X page The former Raptors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[14863,49,48,14866,14865,14864,14867,196607,14861,14868,7607,44,14860,14871,14870,14869,82,630,14862,14872],"class_list":{"0":"post-575025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-104-7","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-cody","12":"tag-dan-henry","13":"tag-heart-fm","14":"tag-john-tesh","15":"tag-local-media","16":"tag-local-radio","17":"tag-london-radio","18":"tag-media","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-oxford-county","21":"tag-radio-station-in-ingersoll","22":"tag-radio-station-in-tillsongurg","23":"tag-radio-stations-in-oxford-country","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-wnba","26":"tag-woodstock","27":"tag-woodstock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575025","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=575025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}