Masai Ujiri asserts that he was the one assaulted during an incident with an Oakland sheriff’s deputy at the end of Game 6 of the NBA Finals last June.
The Raptors president, in a response to a federal lawsuit filed in the United States in February, states that deputy Alan Strickland “assaulted him, forcefully shoving him back once, then twice” in a brief altercation at Oakland’s Oracle Arena, minutes after Toronto won the first championship in franchise history.