Lawyers for Masai Ujiri filed a counterclaim in an Oakland court Tuesday, citing the Toronto Raptors president was subjected to an “unprovoked and unnecessary use of excessive force” in his response to a lawsuit from a California sheriff’s deputy stemming from a June 2019 incident following Game 6 of the NBA Finals.
The 108-page counterclaim, filed in U.S. District Court in Oakland, includes the NBA, the Raptors and Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment as co-plaintiffs with Ujiri.
It said a body-cam video included in the filing shows Ujiri was not the aggressor in an altercation with Alan Strickland, a sheriff’s deputy with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office.