TORONTO — Masai Ujiri has the material for a first-rate How I Spent My Summer Vacation essay. The Toronto Raptors president toured his native Africa for a month, visiting six countries with the non-profit he founded, trying to spread positive messages about life through basketball. Ujiri joked on Tuesday morning that Obama, thankfully, didn’t leak the DeMar DeRozan-Kawhi Leonard trade details to the press as the deal was coming together in July. As the lack of word from Leonard has led to much speculation around the league that he has no interest in playing in Toronto, Ujiri says that is definitively not the case. Ujiri admitted that the DeRozan trade was “a blow” to Kyle Lowry.

Source: National Post September 18, 2018 19:30 UTC