{"id":647754,"date":"2026-05-04T19:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/647754\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:08:08","slug":"former-toronto-raptors-executive-masai-ujiri-tabbed-as-dallas-mavericks-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/647754\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Toronto Raptors executive Masai Ujiri tabbed as Dallas Mavericks president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/dallas-mavericks\/6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/dallas-mavericks\/6\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> are hiring former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/toronto-raptors\/28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/toronto-raptors\/28\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> front office executive Masai Ujiri as the team\u2019s new team president and alternate governor, according to ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: The Dallas Mavericks are hiring Masai Ujiri as the franchise&#8217;s new Team President and Alternate Governor, sources tell me and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BannedMacMahon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@BannedMacMahon<\/a>. Ujiri ran the Toronto Raptors from 2013 to 2025, serving as the architect of the 2019 NBA championship team. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZsRwzwWHDt\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ZsRwzwWHDt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2051330793545359797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ujiri spent 12 years in the front office of with the Raptors, parting ways with the organization following the 2025 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ujiri became the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/denver-nuggets\/7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/denver-nuggets\/7\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> general manager and executive vice-president in charge of basketball operations in 2010, making him the first African GM in major American sports. He was named the NBA Executive of the Year in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Later that year, Ujiri signed on as GM of the Raptors, getting promoted to team president in 2016 and building the roster that won the 2019 NBA championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In March of this year, Ujiri joined the ownership group of the WNBA\u2019s Toronto Tempo alongside Maple Leaf Sport &amp; Entertainment board member Larry Tanenbaum, tennis superstar Serena Williams, and Montreal Canadiens owner Geoff Molson, among others.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks are hiring former Toronto Raptors front office executive Masai Ujiri as the team\u2019s new team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,117726,82,96661],"class_list":["post-647754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dallas-mavericks-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-6","tag-sports","tag-toronto-raptors-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-28"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647754","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=647754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}