Masai Ujiri is in his office fiddling with the inch-wide bracelet on his right wrist. It’s red and tinged with green, with letters in white. MASAI.
“I got this from the Samburu girls,” says the president of the Toronto Raptors, and the founder of Giants of Africa foundation. “They made this for me. I think it’s so arrogant to wear your name, it is, but these girls practically put this on me. There are nine to 16, and they made this for me. I always turn it like this” — he fiddles with it, and turns the letters to the floor — “so it doesn’t look like I’m wearing my name.