Toronto Raptors

In Toronto, he is beloved as the architect behind the Raptors' first NBA championship title. But well before he became the trailblazing president of a ...

“We try to teach camaraderie and working together,” Ujiri said in Sports Illustrated. “Being on time. “I will serve [the game] with every last breath in my body, with all the blood in my body. “I don’t want to be the only one. “I fell in love with the game,” he told GQ magazine. By the early 2000s, Ujiri decided he wanted to stay in basketball, but not as a player. In Toronto, he is beloved as the architect behind the Raptors’ first NBA championship title.