{"id":129218,"date":"2025-06-27T15:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T15:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/129218\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T15:30:10","slug":"masai-ujiri-out-as-toronto-raptors-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/129218\/","title":{"rendered":"Masai Ujiri out as Toronto Raptors president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/OVDT5C3QLZJH5ODL72RAVNBPWE.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"518\"\/>Ujiri, who was in the final year of his contract, joined the Raptors as GM in 2013, leading Toronto to the franchise\u2019s only NBA title in 2019.  Nick Turchiaro\/USA TODAY NETWORK <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">Raptors Vice Chair &amp; President Masai Ujiri \u201cis out,\u201d according to sources cited by Shams Charania of ESPN.com. His departure comes a day after the conclusion of the NBA Draft and just before free agency begins on Monday. Ujiri, who was in the final year of his contract, joined the Raptors as GM in 2013, leading Toronto to the franchise\u2019s only NBA title in 2019. The Raptors are \u201cexpected to conduct a full search for the next president of basketball operations\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/45596081\/sources-masai-ujiri-vice-chairman-president-raptors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/45596081\/sources-masai-ujiri-vice-chairman-president-raptors\">ESPN.com, 6\/27<\/a>). YAHOO SPORTS\u2019 Chris Cwik writes the move comes \u201cat an unusual time.\u201d Ujiri just took part in the 2025 NBA Draft with the Raptors and was entering the final year of his contract. Ujiri could have \u201chypothetically finished out his contract with the team\u201d and \u201cleft in the offseason.\u201d It is unclear why both sides \u201cfelt it was necessary to\u202fmove on at this time\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/breaking-news\/article\/raptors-reportedly-part-ways-with-team-president-masai-ujiri-a-day-after-2025-nba-draft-131702288.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/breaking-news\/article\/raptors-reportedly-part-ways-with-team-president-masai-ujiri-a-day-after-2025-nba-draft-131702288.html\">YAHOO SPORTS, 6\/27<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ujiri, who was in the final year of his contract, joined the Raptors as GM in 2013, leading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,7457,6,681,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-129218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-leadership","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-raptors","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-raptors","14":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114756047849573153","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}