This was reported a while back as well, but now it has been formally blessed by a WojBomb:
Knicks owner James Dolan is targeting Toronto's Masai Ujiri to replace Phil Jackson as N.Y.'s President, league sources tell @TheVertical.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 28, 2017
I find it quite relevant to simply quote our last report on this rumour:
Look, maybe there’s something here, because money talks and it’s a marquee franchise and all, but I don’t think there’s much to worry about here from a Raptors perspective. Of course a bad team is interested in a well-regarded executive from a rival club, one in their division, no less. There’s absolutely nothing in the report to suggest the interest is mutual, and there’s never been any indication Ujiri is anything but happy in Toronto. This is much, much more a Knicks story than a Raptors one.
Now, my personal view on this is that the days of a big city attracting free-agents and executives just because of their location are long gone. There’s too many cases of executives and players re-upping at less sexy locations to build franchises. Control, stability and predictability are valued more than Broadway or Beverley Hills, and Masai Ujiri falls into the former camp. He also has to feel he has unfinished business in Toronto, after having been convincingly defeated by the Cavs the last two seasons.
An approach will undoubtedly be made, and Ujiri owes himself to at least listen but ultimately he’s smart enough to know that working with James Dolan is a step just below hell.
