<P> Ujiri emigrated to the United States to play two years of basketball at Bismarck State College, then transferred to Montana State University Billings, though he left the latter school after one semester . He spent six years playing professionally in Europe . After ending a professional playing career in 2002, Ujiri worked as a youth coach in Nigeria . During an NBA summer league game in Boston, he met David Thorpe, who eventually introduced him to college coaches . In 2002, Ujiri was accompanying a young Nigerian player to a draft tryout in Orlando when he impressed Magic scouting director Gary Brokaw, who then introduced Ujiri to coach Doc Rivers and GM John Gabriel . Ujiri then became an unpaid scout for the NBA's Orlando Magic, paying his own way when he had to and sharing rooms with scouts or players when he could . </P> <P> Jeff Weltman, then a young executive with the Denver Nuggets, introduced Ujiri to Nuggets general manager Kiki Vandeweghe, who then hired Ujiri on salary as an international scout . After four seasons there, he was hired away by Bryan Colangelo of the Toronto Raptors as their Director of Global Scouting . Ujiri became the Raptors' assistant general manager in 2008, and returned to the Nuggets in 2010, when he accepted his position as executive vice president in charge of basketball operations . On May 31, 2013, Ujiri signed a 5 - year, $15 million deal to become GM of the Toronto Raptors . In 2013, he was named the NBA Executive of the Year, the only non-American ever to win the award . On September 2, 2016 the Toronto Raptors extended Ujiri's contract as the team's president . </P> <P> Ujiri has also been the director of the NBA's Basketball Without Borders Africa program, which promotes basketball throughout the continent . He also conducts two camps, one for the top 50 players of Nigeria, which is sponsored by Nestle Milo, and another for African big men, which Ujiri sponsors himself with help from Nike . </P> <P> Ujiri and Basketball Without Borders are profiled in Hubert Davis's 2016 documentary film Giants of Africa . </P>

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