{"id":726315,"date":"2026-05-05T12:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/726315\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:54:19","slug":"masai-ujiri-joins-dallas-mavericks-as-team-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/726315\/","title":{"rendered":"Masai Ujiri Joins Dallas Mavericks as Team President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/unnamed-3.jpg\" alt=\"Masai Ujiri Dallas Mavericks President\" class=\"wp-image-797696\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Mavericks have appointed Masai Ujiri as Team President and Alternate Governor, signaling a major leadership shift for the franchise. Announced on Monday, May 4, 2026, Ujiri will oversee all basketball operations, including roster construction and scouting, as he attempts to rebuild a team coming off a challenging 26-56 season.<\/p>\n<p>Ujiri, the architect of the Toronto Raptors\u2019 2019 NBA Championship, brings over a decade of elite executive experience to Dallas. Mavericks Governor Patrick Dumont praised the hire, calling Ujiri one of the great basketball leaders of this generation. Ujiri inherits a roster headlined by Rookie of the Year Cooper Flagg, providing a high-potential cornerstone for his vision of a world-class organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m honored to join the Dallas Mavericks,\u201d Ujiri said. \u201cThis is a franchise with a proud history and a commitment to winning. We will win in Dallas.\u201d Beyond his NBA success, Ujiri remains a global figure through his Giants of Africa foundation and his recent role as a United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Advocate. He replaces Nico Harrison, who was fired in November, and is expected to bring a culture of discipline and talent development back to the Mavericks front office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks have appointed Masai Ujiri as Team President and Alternate Governor, signaling a major leadership shift&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[89683,7,225,686,149,4057,6833,166,6,90140,3101,7725,476],"class_list":["post-726315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-mavericks","tag-2026-nba-offseason","tag-basketball","tag-cooper-flagg","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallasmavericks","tag-masai-ujiri","tag-mavericks","tag-nba","tag-nba-executives","tag-nba-news","tag-patrick-dumont","tag-toronto-raptors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116522075873211627","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726315","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=726315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}