NBA President Stokes Africa's Hoop Dreams

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NBA President Stokes Africa's Hoop Dreams | Power Players

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Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri leads the only non-US team in the National Basketball Association, and he's spearheading an effort to take the game global.
On this episode of Power Players, Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri explains how sports can be a tool of economic development.
Africa has produced some of the National Basketball Association’s biggest stars, past and present-from Hakeem Olajuwon to Joel Embiid and many more in between.
With the game globally more popular than ever, one of the league’s most successful executives sees potential for a bigger play: Using basketball to accelerate economic development in Africa. “Maybe the best thing I ever discovered that helped me in my career was the confidence in the continent, and the confidence in the talent in the continent,” Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri says in the latest episode of Power Players. “And if we grew the game, the spotlight will start to come to this continent.”
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@romanewilliams9563 Ай бұрын

This is all Masai’s doing. He should get the credit!! Africa basketball is very grateful.

@FrancisSiuChock Ай бұрын

Interviewer says 'you're not sort of a big wig in the NBA'. Dude, Masai is the Vice-Chairman to Larry Tanenbaum, Chairman of the NBA Board of Governors...

@NileGoddess Ай бұрын

lol he did not do his homework

@aaroncmumba8568 25 күн бұрын

When I heard that statement I came straight to the comments section to see if someone else picked that. Such an insensitive statement

@Sweegdeddy 8 күн бұрын

That was an insane thing to say 😭

@Justfranktbh Ай бұрын

man I love Masai. Inspirational

@dabereogbuishi7533 Ай бұрын

A well-balanced report. Thank you

@AkinolaAdeyemi-pu6vq Ай бұрын

Massai Ujiri. A Giant in deeds❤

@neekznf Ай бұрын

Masai Ujiri is an inspiration!!!

@vmunit2931 Ай бұрын

Bless you Tim Leiweke for bringing Masai back to TO.

@Veggamattic Ай бұрын

He is insanely overrated.

@vmunit2931 Ай бұрын

@@Veggamattic TL or MU?

@Veggamattic Ай бұрын

@@vmunit2931 Ujiri.

@vmunit2931 Ай бұрын

@@Veggamattic I doubt we get Kawhi without MU. Without Kawhi we don't get 2019 championship. Gotta give him credit for that.

@martinsgates1141 Ай бұрын

We will always take all Africans on this journey no matter how much you hate us.

@JP-cc6yn Ай бұрын

Excellent piece

@urbanstrencan Ай бұрын

So inspirational, we really see Africa just as a poor continent but do not know what talents come from Africa, what great video showing this :)

@Eniola0ne Ай бұрын

Africa is not a poor Continents. Africa is the richest continent. Africa is a poor continent, a slogan of Western racists.

@AndreInThe416 Ай бұрын

Improving the Raptors should be top priority.

@6ixAdemiks Ай бұрын

hes improving africa.. hes onto better and bigger things

@Justfranktbh Ай бұрын

One word for you. Patience

@AndreInThe416 Ай бұрын

@@Justfranktbh most fans are patient especially with so many choices in sports entertainment. Let's deal in the actual reality here.

@kemperthornberry4686 Ай бұрын

I knew there was going to be some worm finding a way to hate on this. I am a lifelong Raptors fan and you are so sad to me!

@AndreInThe416 Ай бұрын

@@kemperthornberry4686 worm? It's not uncommon for executives to lose focus. Maybe to the uninitiated.

@regisking3857 Ай бұрын

Africa need more Ujiri's, well done the giant of Africa

@laurendamos6651 Ай бұрын

The world needs more Ujiri's.

@thekingofafrican7771 Ай бұрын

Let,s go Afrika, Respekt the uncle 💪🏿

@soundsoflife808 Ай бұрын

So Inspirational! Keep going Masai

@eric_kariuki5275 Ай бұрын

I see the wrist band rep 254🇰🇪💯

@NileGoddess Ай бұрын

His mother is Kenyan father Nigerian

@FloydPhillipsII Ай бұрын

Powerful! Makes me very excited for the future of the continent...

@jointvrwanda250 Ай бұрын

My Country ❤

@andreilyas1426 Ай бұрын

Love this

@mathewomolo Ай бұрын

I like people who get things done.

@jkoren9308 Ай бұрын

Love it!

@MuhammadibnIbra Ай бұрын

Great Bro may Allah bless you and your business

@quincyadeiza Ай бұрын

👋👋👋👋👋 Great work.

@catregime Ай бұрын

One thing I can’t stand is when ppl say Drake does nothing for the city. The CITY refused to create a practice facility for the Raps, so OVO BUILT ONE THEMSELVES dedicated to developing city ball players and the for Raptors. If it weren’t for that they would have been renting out hockey facilities and having to move over and play second fiddle to a perpetually losing team (the Leafs).

@steven.events Ай бұрын

OVO didn't build the facility. They acquired naming rights.

@catregime Ай бұрын

@@steven.events that can’t be done without putting in money…money the city wouldn’t put in.

@selanryn5849 Ай бұрын

@@catregime The facility was built by the team in 2013. OV-Hoes bought the naming rights in 2019.

@catregime Ай бұрын

@@selanryn5849 bc the city refused to put up funds for it.

@Vinxi Ай бұрын

Genda Rwanda Uri Nziza🇷🇼💛

@mattmcdonough3673 Ай бұрын

Embiid, Giannis, wemby (father is congolese). Africans are on the come up as far as nba talent is concerned. Forgot pascal. Lot of tent in Africa.

@1aaroncarl Ай бұрын

But you don't think about the rising population, the youthful population, the demographic, urbanization--cities getting bigger. No truer words were said for the growing African continent.

@ashleymukarali4852 Ай бұрын

Nice

@IXCANADATV Ай бұрын

Masai needs to stay with the raptors forever till he retires

@KwatuistM Ай бұрын

Love the fact Toronto is represented in the NBA. Why not Montreal also?

@ZL60204 Ай бұрын

Sometime in the future probably

@koriifaloju2051 Ай бұрын

Actually, it was suggested to expand the NBA to the 3 Canadian cities ( Toronto, Vancouver & MTL) the only one that didn’t get any bite (buy-in, political or public support) was MTL. The Vancouver franchise didn’t last long either, no interest in the game like MTL.

@ebhamilton1 Ай бұрын

Weird title card flash at 8:59

@tomconnors5697 Ай бұрын

Hey thank you for catching this. We're hopefully going to be able to swap it out.

@2LA1 Ай бұрын

I wanna b an NBA player too

@bigpat2436 Ай бұрын

Most Americans can’t even support them selves let alone donate $10. Most of them are depressed and stress out.

@I66CHANEL Ай бұрын

🤍🖤💜🏀🥇🎉

@TaylorCrane1312 Ай бұрын

Do not fall colonizers’ trap

@boyahboy09 Ай бұрын

This is hilarious a whole different country is going to basically be running a continents sports league

@chuckscott-cy7iq Ай бұрын

The NBA is not a country.

@semoihines192 Ай бұрын

He’s definitely not improving the raps. He can’t. After the whole demar thing, people don’t trust him. It’s how he traded him, He could have kept him, and traded some other guys but he didn’t. LBJ was everyone’s problem in the east, Debo needed help and they never really gave it to him.

@ZL60204 Ай бұрын

😂

@NileGoddess Ай бұрын

What do you know?

@SemoiHines Ай бұрын

@@NileGoddess?

@thezu9250 29 күн бұрын

Uh they got a championship. Thats literally the ultimate achievement.

@SemoiHines 28 күн бұрын

What do u know?