It’s not a corner office in the truest sense of the corporate meaning, and it’s not really all that spacious, and it isn’t chock full of mementoes and brimming with autographed pictures of this star or that star or some important politician or what have you.
It’s nestled among a row of similar spaces alongside the two practice courts at the OVO Athletic Centre, home of the NBA champion Toronto Raptors, a kind of self-effacing space that’s really comfortable but not in the least boastful.
It’s actually kind of perfect for its inhabitant.
Bobby Webster — the team’s general manager, the right-hand man in the background behind the globally famous Masai Ujiri, one of the relatively anonymous players in a highly competitive game dominated by type-A personalities — sits behind his desk, comfortably chatting and explaining that the fame, the adulation, the public glory is the least of his concerns.