[OhCanada-Participant]

Phew…that was close.

[armchairgmParticipant]

Re-signs I am assuming haha when I saw your headline I thought he quit as in resigned.

[OhCanada-Participant]

He’s talking pretty crazy here. I love it.

“One day, I’m going to tell an unbelievable story,” Ujiri said at one point, voice rising, eyes misting. “I shouldn’t be here. I’m from Zaria in northern Nigeria. I find myself getting phone calls from presidents … I’m sorry to rant on, but man, Canada, here, what an opportunity, what a country. It bothers me that we’re not confident enough that we don’t think we can do it. There’s so much opportunity here to do it even bigger, even bigger than us.”

Ujiri spoke of the Raptors franchise in terms reserved for European soccer elites – truly global teams as likely to be followed in Taipei or Kinshasa as they are at home. This is a team that for years struggled to articulate why it should even exist.

Are the Raptors now bigger than the NBA?

“Yes. There’s no doubt about it,” Ujiri said, then referenced Liverpool FC: “We’re the new Reds. We’re going to capture the world.”

This is dizzying stuff. Nobody in this country talks this way. Too show-offy. Too treacly. Perhaps we should ask ourselves: Why not? Because it sounds kinda nice.

Along the way, Ujiri pledged his long-term future to the franchise (“For me, it’s always been about Toronto”), said basketball will soon be bigger than hockey in this country, guaranteed more championships, announced that the Raptors will be the first NBA team to play in Africa and committed his bosses to buying a WNBA franchise.

[canadabasketballisrisingParticipant]

anyone see gilbert arenas’s” idiotic comments on if the raptors will win again… “ARE were counting the first one a real championship, it’s Canada” Sounds like someone who would bring a loaded gun into their workplace, throw rockets at police cars, and would tell a room of gm’s as a yet to be drafted rookie his nba goal is to be a pimp….

Fuuny how his antics are worse than anything rodman or artest did, yet he’s thought of as different, in a better light/Rodman lovedjust loved to party and have sex…

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