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.”

Read more on Bloomberg.com. Basketball’s Global Statesman Has Big Plans for Africa: www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-16/video-b…

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  • @vmunit2931
    Bless you Tim Leiweke for bringing Masai back to TO.
  • @FrancisSiuChock
    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...
  • @martinsgates1141
    We will always take all Africans on this journey no matter how much you hate us.
  • @catregime
    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).
  • @KwatuistM
    Love the fact Toronto is represented in the NBA. Why not Montreal also?
  • @1aaroncarl
    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.
  • @boyahboy09
    This is hilarious a whole different country is going to basically be running a continents sports league
  • @semoihines192
    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.