Masai Ujiri is the only top sports executive in the city who can get a job anywhere else, at any time. If he’s still here in two years, this all might go smoothly
Business and regulatory concerns aside, Edward Rogers ’s proposed takeover of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment still faced one major impediment – Masai Ujiri .
And how to get rid of Ujiri once everyone knows it’s personal? Almost impossible. The guy could manage to lose 83 games in a season and the owner would be forced to smile and say how much he trusts the plan. It would have been an Alexandre Dumas-level act of retribution. Later, his voice rising to what sounded like anger: “So let’s get this whole narrative, every time something comes up, WNBA, whoa – it’s Masai vs. Edward. Any small thing that comes up. Clear that. There’s nothing. Zero. There’s zero going on.”
But all that matters is that Rogers has won this round. He got the only guy whose criticism he was vulnerable to to say that he’s a straight shooter. Now we know he’s a boss’ boss – at one point, Ujiri seemed to refer to him as “a mentor” – and someone who can make one of the NBA’s great dealmakers batty with frustration.So that’s it. Someone let the rubber stampers know they’re free to come in now. The deal’s done.
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