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NEW YORK, United States – Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri was fined $25,000 by the NBA for walking onto the playing court at halftime to verbally confront game officials, the league announced Sunday, May 6.
The incident took place Saturday, May 5, during Toronto’s 105-103 loss at Cleveland, which gave the Cavaliers a 3-0 lead in the best-of-7 Eastern Conference second-round playoff series.
In that game, LeBron James buried an off-balance floater at the buzzer that sealed the Cavs’ win over the Raptors and pushed Cleveland within a win of a conference finals berth.
Ujiri, a 47-year-old Nigerian, played 6 years professionally in Europe as a guard before retiring in 2002.
Ujiri broke into the NBA as an international scout for the Denver Nuggets, then became a scouting director and later an assistant general manager for the Raptors before rejoining the Nuggets as vice president of basketball operations.
In 2013, Ujiri became the first non-US person selected as NBA Executive of the Year. He departed for a 5-year deal as the Raptors’ general manager and in 2016 signed an extension to serve as the Raptors president. – Rappler.com
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