SIMMONS: Today is all that matters to Masai Ujiri, Raptors:
Ujiri may like his roster better than most basketball minds seem to, but he also knows there is so much in need of change, with what he has and what he needs to acquire.Nurse didn’t lose the team as much as the team lost its purpose. They played selfish and occasionally stupid basketball. They played their starters too much and their bench not enough. In a shooter’s league, they couldn’t shoot.
I did not enjoy watching this team play. That spoke loud and clear to everything that went on this year. It bothered all of us.Ujiri talked about the Raptors culture — what is was, what he wants it to be and, somehow, how it was went missing this season. Ujiri was almost undressed in all of his honesty on Friday. This wasn’t like the Dwane Casey firing of six years back. This wasn’t full of nonsense, misplaced emotions and mistruths. Masai liked Nurse, admired him and, in the end, also knew he needed to show him the door.Article content
Following the departure of coach Nick Nurse, Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri addresses media at the OVO Athletic Centre in Toronto on Friday April 21, 2023. Ujiri asked the media audience Friday morning whether anyone knew with certainty who would win the NBA championship this year. The answer was as expected: A room full of blank expressions.
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