Raptors president Masai Ujiri’s view has always extended far beyond the NBA, and with the globe now gripped in the vise of a historic pandemic his first concern lies with the world, not his team.
He’d love to be figuratively living and dying with the fortunes of the Raptors as they prepare to defend their NBA championship — in the playoffs that were to begin two weeks from this coming weekend — because that’s his nature and his job and his passion.
He can’t.
So his horizons are broadened: beyond the games, beyond his adopted city, beyond the country where he lives.