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Ujiri Plays Up To Raptors' Rapturous Crowd, Curses Opponent Again

Thousands of fans yesterday at Maple Leaf Square who showed up to watch Raptors-Wizards Game 1 taking place at nearby Air Canada Centre "roared" after Raptors President of Basketball Operations & GM Masai Ujiri "took his turn to trash talk minutes before the team’s first playoff game." Ujiri, responding to a comment made last week by Wizards F Paul Pierce regarding the Raptors, said, "We don’t give a s--- about it." Ujiri "toned down expectations of a response when he first took the stage by giving a nod to NBA commissioner Adam Silver who was in town for the game -- the same commissioner who fined him $25,000 for his 'f--- Brooklyn' comment" last season (TORONTO STAR, 4/19).

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