Raptors general manager Bobby Webster and assistant GM Dan Tolzman recently received contract extensions that were not announce until Friday and now assume day-to-day control of basketball operations while MLSE conducts a search for Ujiri’s replacement. We’ll have to see to what lengths MLSE is prepared to go in terms of hiring a successor when the significant annual salaries held by Ujiri and former Maple Leafs president Brendan Shanahan are believed to have factored in strongly to the dismissals of both lead executives in the space of the past five weeks.
by Hoops Hype