Masai Ujiri is both pro-fan and profane. At a playoff rally Saturday, the Raptors GM channeled his inner Rob Ford (the crassness, not the crack-smoking), and took the stage to shout, "Fuck Brooklyn." That salty sentiment will cause the crowd to cheer if you're in mannerless Manhattan, but not in courteous Canada, a country where the only thing cleaner than its citizens' language are its cities. Toronto lost game one*, so the expletive wasn't eff-ective.
Torontoans must have been shocked (the pale know best what is beyond the pale) - all the more so when they learned the Raptors qualified for the postseason. Although Ujiri's four-letter word was surprising, Toronto getting four wins to take the series would be more so. Ujiri apologized and swore he wouldn't say that again.
*they've already fallen into a-hole
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