Masai Ujiri ‘In actuality Aggravated’ With Raptors, Linked to Wizards Job, NBA GM Says

Gash Nurse is maybe no longer the handiest prominent settle exiting the Toronto Raptors this offseason.

One NBA classic supervisor told Steve Bulpett of Heavy that team president Masai Ujiri is “frustrated” with the organization and would possibly maybe well well wind up being pursued by the Washington Wizards.

“Masai is de facto, actually frustrated,” the GM talked about. “He is frustrated with [Fred] VanVleet also, because he hasn’t confirmed him any indication that he must preserve. So I have confidence he’s actually down about that mission. Presumably or no longer that is because all the pieces’s soundless so recent, but there is plenty they want to procure done there. It did no longer shock somebody that Gash moved on.

“I do no longer know what they’ll entire, but I’ve been hearing that Washington is coming after Masai again.”

Ujiri has been with the Raptors for the final decade, helping bask in a roster that obtained the franchise’s first NBA championship in 2019. Toronto has been in a chunk bit of a stasis over the last three seasons, missing the playoffs twice and shedding within the first spherical within the team’s 2022 appearance.

Main choices will face Ujiri or whoever ends up replacing him main the Raptors transferring ahead. Fred VanVleet (participant possibility) would possibly maybe even be a free agent this summer, and there is an exact ask whether the team is perfect off re-signing him to a serious deal or allowing him to lag and starting a rebuilding course of. Pascal Siakam and OG Anunoby can was free brokers after the 2023-24 season and are attractive change chips.

The Wizards reportedly pursued Ujiri in 2019 after the Raptors’ championship, but he in some blueprint decided to stay in Toronto. Washington as a replacement hired Tommy Sheppard, who was fired after four seasons in April.