A little over a year ago, league sources say, Hawaii native Bobby Webster was quietly pursued by the University of Hawaii when the Rainbow Warriors needed a new athletic director. Webster, at the time, was still Toronto’s No. 2 executive under Masai Ujiri. But there was no luring him away from the NBA or the Raptors — not even by the big school where he grew up — and that reality soon made perfect sense. One day after last June’s draft, Toronto abruptly parted ways with Ujiri and would install Webster as his permanent successor some six weeks later.
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