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The former Toronto Raptors president was appointed as a United Nations sustainable goals development advocate on Thursday, according a release sent out by Giants of Africa. Ujiri, who parted with the Raptors in June, will join a group of international leaders in the SDG group, which aims to end global poverty and hunger while increasing well-being and education.
Masai Ujiri will spend the run-up to NBA training camps expanding his global horizons on another of his passions. The former president and vice-chair of the Raptors has been appointed a sustainable development goal advocate by United Nations secretary António Guterres, the group announced Thursday.
Chris Haynes: Embiid to me on his UN participation: “I’ve never experienced UN week and it was very eye opening. I met so many leaders from Africa trying to create opportunities. I think of my own experience, and all the Africans in professional sports around the world, and how we can get all that influence working together.”
Chris Haynes: Joel Embiid to me on his UN participation: “I’ve never experienced UN week and it was very eye opening. I met so many leaders from Africa trying to create opportunities. I think of my own experience, and all the Africans in professional sports around the world, and how we can get all that influence working together.”
The latest war in Sudan, which began in April 2023, has produced one of the largest displacement crises in the world. Some projections have more than eight million displaced Sudanese, mostly from South Sudan and including those displaced within the country. Another generation is being affected by war and will too know the longings of home. That’s why they didn’t lose on this night against USA. Because South Sudanese people across the world got to see their flag, their people, their likeness on a pedestal with legends. Omot was born in a refugee camp in Kenya in 1994, and he was the lucky one. His parents and older siblings trekked from Ethiopia and were arrested. The United Nations helped get them freed and settled into the Kenyan refugee camp, where Omot was born. He was two when the family relocated to Minnesota. Wednesday, he scored a game-high 24 points on 8-for-12 shooting and was dancing with LeBron James.
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“There have been a lot of great moments and some low moments as well. I’d have to think more about that,” Silver said, before immediately pivoting to things like World Basketball Day being celebrated by the United Nations, how more girls are interested in the WNBA and that players are more open about their mental health than ever before. Silver seems to be always looking forward, not backward. “I’m happy for him,” Los Angeles Clippers star Kawhi Leonard said. “He’s been pushing this league in a great way and making it more worldwide, global. And I think he’s still going to continue to do that and do great things.”
Kevin Porter's girlfriend suffered fractured neck vertebra after alleged attack
Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr.'s alleged attack on his girlfriend at a New York City hotel left the woman with a fractured neck vertebra and a cut above her right eye, prosecutors revealed at his arraignment Tuesday. Porter, 23, is charged with felony assault and strangulation in connection with the incident Monday at the Millennium Hilton near the United Nations in Manhattan. He was not required to enter a plea during his brief court appearance.
You first entered into team ownership in 2009 and then became majority owner of ASVEL in 2014 – what have you learned since you’ve been working on the ownership side of the sport? Tony Parker: It’s always something that I wanted to do and always something that I had in mind. I was very blessed to make good money in the NBA and invest, and I always knew that was going to be my way to give back to French basketball. In ’09, I bought 20% because I wanted to see how it works. Then in 2014, I bought majority, and in 2017, I bought the women’s team. It was important and I wanted to have both teams. I’m an ambassador for the United Nations and I’m big on equality.
Bill Richardson, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a frequent emissary in hostage negotiations who has worked to secure the releases of WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan, visited Moscow this week and held meetings with Russian leaders, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday night.
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Jusuf Nurkic: Genocide in Srebrenica ‼️ Unending pain of the Bosnia 🇧🇦 HERZEGOVINA Every year on July 11, Bosniaks mark the anniversary of the attack on the UN safe area of Srebrenica. Twenty-seven years later, Srebrenica remains an open wound for Bosniaks. pic.twitter.com/TaY5F9A4nV
Nets Daily: Former UN ambassador Bill Richardson, who helped engineer today's prisoner swap between US and Russia, tells MSNBC that he's been involved in trying to free WNBA's Brittney Griner. It's gotta be low-key, he said. He calls Griner "a very high profile and important person."
There is probably no city in the world that would provide a greater opportunity for Ujiri to further the ambitions of his foundation than New York, where he could walk to the United Nations for lunch and meet potential billionaire donors for breakfast. It’s a global nerve centre for business and politics and it would be impossible for Ujiri to fail to expand his already considerable network there. If his ultimate goal is to further his causes in Africa, New York is a better base to work from. The question, really, is if there is anything MLSE can do to make Ujiri a semi-permanent piece of the Toronto landscape, to make the Knicks or other threats distant or far-fetched?
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