The NBA’s Executive of the Year award is not the trendiest of the league’s year-end accolades. Probably because you don’t see their daily impact. Even the most active of GM’s rarely make the news and often are thought of last when it comes to credit for team success. For the Toronto Raptors, things have been a little different in regards to super-executive Masai Ujiri.
Bobby Webster and Ujiri made numerous moves to not only improve the roster but also better the overall culture and help the financial side.
The first point of action in the culture rebuild was firing Coach of the Year, Dwayne Casey, in early May four days after a second-round sweep to LeBron and the Cavs.