Few questions are quite as pressing for the Toronto Raptors‘ long-term future as the contractual situations of team architects Masai Ujiri and Bobby Webster, both of whom are under contract through 2021.
But it appears closure on at least one of those deals may be on the horizon.
“It’s not a matter of not doing it,” Ujiri told the media Saturday while discussing the state of his own contract negotiations. “There’s just so much going on with this relocation and the focus [it requires]and I don’t want to be distracted that way. But in terms of staff, there was even some distraction with that because Bobby was the last one.
“But I think we’re sealing it, there’s no issues. I would consider that done soon enough.”
This off-season presented the Raptors with a bevy of complicated questions resulting in Ujiri pushing his own negotiations to the backburner, ranging from how the team would approach free-agency negotiations with Marc Gasol and Serge Ibaka to where the Raptors would call home to start the 2020-21 campaign.
With those situations nearly resolved in full, more attention can turn to securing the designers of the most successful run in team history.
Since the arrival of Ujiri and Webster in 2013, the Raptors have never won fewer than 48 games, and claimed the team’s first-ever championship in 2019.
Toronto’s first game of the 2020-21 season takes place Dec. 23 against the New Orleans Pelicans.
