Authorities are looking into allegations that Toronto Raptors president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri was involved in an altercation with a sheriff’s deputy after the Raptors won their first NBA title with a 114–110 victory over the two-time defending champion Golden State Warriors.
According to NBC Bay Area, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said that the deputy was pushed and struck in the face.
Ujiri was reportedly denied access to the court and the team's celebration because he did not have the correct credentials to be allowed on the floor.
“(The deputy) did not know who the man was and asked for the credential, and that’s when he tried to push past our deputy, and our deputy pushed him back, and there was another push that kind of moved up and struck our deputy in the face,” Sheriff’s office spokesman Sgt.