Raptors promote Bobby Webster to general manager in wake of Weltman departure
TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors have promoted Bobby Webster to general manager following the departure of Jeff Weltman to the Magic last month.
Webster moves into the job after working as the team’s vice-president of basketball strategy since 2016. He joined the front office in 2013, helping construct the roster that won three straight division titles.
One of his first tasks will be helping president Masai Ujiri decide what to do with Toronto’s glut of free agents, including star point guard Kyle Lowry, forward/centre Serge Ibaka and defensive stalwarts Patrick Patterson and P.J. Tucker.
“When the time is appropriate we’ll set up time to talk with them,” Webster told reporters Wednesday. “Fortunately the last couple of years I was in those meetings. They’re not as crazy as you would think. You sit down and you kind of talk as adults and professionals and people about basketball. So I don’t think that changes.