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After a few years of breaking glass ceilings, women are working their way into increasingly more prominent, powerful roles throughout the NBA and the broader professional sports landscape. The Toronto Raptors are no exception, with Masai Ujiri behind the hiring of 14 females among the team brass, chief among them Teresa Resch.
The current VP of basketball operations, Resch was among Ujiri’s first hires upon rejoining the organization in 2013, coming over from the league offices to serve as an intermediary between the club’s business and basketball ops. The former volleyball and basketball standout aided in the Raptors’ unprecedented rise to perennial contender status and, eventually, NBA champions.