Summary: With Rogers buying MLSE, Ed Rogers who opposed re-signing Masai will have a bigger influence. Ally Larry Tanenbaum will have less influence.
Masai has had his missteps pivoting from 2019 but I’m really weary of changing him. I remember all the other GM’s we have gone thru and how bad some have been. Bad ownership decisions can really create decades of chaos. Owners love to put their own ppl in place but those decisions are almost always about personal relationships and less about actual basketball IQ.
by originaltigerlord
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Masai Ujiri brings credibility like few other options would .
I think the biggest problem with our fanbase (to a lesser extent but still true for our media) is that you guys think the world only exists through the lens of the Raptors.
Yes, we have a long history of shitty management for the first ~20 seasons of existence, but NBA executives are 100x better and smarter today than executives of the past. Looking around the league, there are very few bad GMs or POBOs. There are still many bad/cheap owners, but our ownership group has not meddled in basketball affairs almost at all, and that’s coming from Masai’s mouth.
I think Masai probably deserved to be fired after trading for Poeltl then losing Fred, but he’s still here and our scouting/drafting under his leadership has been amazing. Now that we are rebuilding and set to get a top pick, I think there are very few basketball minds I trust more to make the upcoming draft decisions. So in the end, I think we just have to keep him, but it’s not because I’m worried rogers is gonna hire fucking Brian Colangelo… gimme a break, the league has moved on from those shmucks.
If you do change Masai (I hope not)
Who exactly will fill his shoes and his league wide reputation amongst GMs and players
I really hope they don’t change (Masai)
If they were to they really have don’t anyone who fills his shoes in the reputation that he holds among the players and GM’s
Didn’t Masai just come out saying him and Ed are on the same page and good terms?
Masai is going to be here until 2026 at least. After that, it depends on if we are done rebuilding or not. If we still in no mans land, I think it would be time for a change.
Sometimes change is good. He’s great and I’d want him to stick around but maybe he needs a change too. I sense that he wouldn’t mind that.
The fuck does Ed Rogers know about anything other than exploitation
He wasted many of the post-Kawhi pieces. Should’ve have either made a truly big trade to build the team up or sell high on a lot of guys. Did neither, so now the team has to basically start all over