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Original Title: [Grange] Former Raptors head coach and current Detroit Pistons executive Dwane Casey has thrown his hat in the ring and has met with MLSE president Keith Pelley… But an interesting name to watch is Kevin Pritchard, the long-time Indiana Pacers president who led the club to the NBA Finals
Raptors president search
There hasn’t been a lot of talk around MLSE’s search for a new president to replace Ujiri, though a number of league insiders I have spoken with believe that the team’s general manager, Bobby Webster, is the leading candidate for the role. “Bobby’s to lose” was a line I heard around Las Vegas, though how much of that was informed speculation and how much was deductive reasoning — Webster is a well-liked and well-respected executive both within the MLSE and across the NBA, so why mess with it? — was hard to discern.
Webster is interested in the job, which is the first step. Moving Webster up a peg to president explains why one source said that the names they had heard that the search — led by CAA Executive Search — had reached out to were some lower-tier executives, most of whom would make more sense as additions to the Raptors front office’s overall horsepower working for someone like Webster rather than in a team president role.
But there are some candidates with long and varied NBA experience, also. One name that MLSE has done background work on is Chicago Bulls general manager Marc Eversley, a Brampton native who was an assistant general manager with the Raptors under Bryan Colangelo before stints in Philadelphia, Washington and now Chicago.
Eversley is a board member with Canada Basketball and has a long-standing relationship with Webster and the experience to undertake some of the duties of a team president, even if Webster was president by title. Eversley was a key figure in the Raptors drafting DeMar DeRozan. One source said that Eversley’s ties to the Raptors and Canadian basketball were intriguing, in addition to his background with multiple NBA teams. Indiana Pacers general manager Chad Buchanan is also on MLSE’s radar.
Former Raptors head coach and current Detroit Pistons executive Dwane Casey has thrown his hat in the ring and has met with MLSE president Keith Pelley, per sources. I’m told another NBA figure of note Pelley has met with is former Sacramento Kings general manager Monte McNair. The 2022-23 NBA executive of the year was let go by the Kings in April after leading Sacramento to one of its most successful runs in franchise history.
But an interesting name to watch is Kevin Pritchard, the long-time Indiana Pacers president who led the club to the NBA Finals this past June and the Eastern Conference Finals in 2024. One league insider suggested to me that the Pacers executive is MLSE’s preferred choice, although lateral moves when executives are under contract with other teams are often harder to execute than when there is a promotion.