{"id":1917251,"date":"2026-05-04T16:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1917251"},"modified":"2026-05-04T16:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:08:20","slug":"mavericks-hire-masai-ujiri-as-team-president-alternate-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1917251","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks hire Masai Ujiri as team president, alternate governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Article_ContentContainer__jBNW3 article-content-container bodytext1\">\n<p>The Dallas Mavericks have hired Masai Ujiri as their team president and alternate governor.<\/p>\n<p>He will succeed Nico Harrison, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6800940\/2025\/11\/12\/dallas-mavericks-gm-nico-harrison-culture-workplace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who was fired as general manager<\/a> in November, as the franchise\u2019s lead basketball executive. Michael Finley and Matt Riccardi had served as co-interim general managers after Harrison\u2019s firing, which came nine months after the blockbuster trade of Luka Don\u010di\u0107.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container\">\n<div class=\"ad-wrapper article-treatment\">\n<div class=\"ad-slug-container\">\n<p class=\"ad-slug\">Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"mid1\" data-position=\"mid1\" class=\"ad place-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ujiri was the lead basketball executive for the Raptors from 2013-25. Toronto won its only NBA title in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m honored to join the Dallas Mavericks and step into this role at such an important time for the organization,\u201d Ujiri said in a statement. \u201cThis is a franchise with a proud history, passionate fans and a commitment to winning. I look forward to working with our players, coaches and leadership team to build something that reflects that standard and competes at the highest level. We will win in Dallas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This story will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Mavericks have hired Masai Ujiri as their team president and alternate governor. He will succeed Nico Harrison, who was fired as general manager in November, as the franchise\u2019s lead basketball executive. Michael Finley and Matt Riccardi had served as co-interim general managers after Harrison\u2019s firing, which came nine months after the blockbuster trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,241],"class_list":["post-1917251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nytimes-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1917251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1917251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1917251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1917251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}