{"id":435425,"date":"2023-05-12T15:05:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T19:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=435425"},"modified":"2023-05-12T14:14:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T18:14:15","slug":"torontos-ujiri-webster-met-sergio-scariolo","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/torontos-ujiri-webster-met-sergio-scariolo\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto&#8217;s Ujiri, Webster met Sergio Scariolo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/toronto-raptors\/\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> directors met with Sergio Scariolo \u2013 the Spain national team manager, regarding the available head coaching position at the franchise, Marca reported.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Toronto Raptors front office has met with Spain national team head coach Sergio Scariolo, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marca?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@marca<\/a>. ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O1WyR0CWyU\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/O1WyR0CWyU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/1657063453100474372?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian NBA team president, Ujiri and GM Webster, went to Italy to talk with Sergio, who also manages the Italian basketball team, Virtus Bologna.<\/p>\n<p>Scariolo is a familiar name in Toronto as he was part of the Nick Nurse team in Raptors from 2018 to 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian manager left Canada to become the manager of the Virtus Bologna, and he lifted 2 Italian Supercups and 1 Eurocup with the basketball team from Bologna.<\/p>\n<p>If he lands the Raptors job, he will be only the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> European manager in NBA history. Igor Koko\u0161kov, who works as an assistant at Mavericks now, was the 1<sup>st<\/sup> European manager when he became the head coach of Phoenix Suns in 2018.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cThe Raptors arrived yesterday, and they left this morning. It was a good meeting, almost like with friends because I won a title with them. I believe that things were done correctly\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sergio Scariolo on his Raptors interview conducted yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xiN9QfE9il\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/xiN9QfE9il<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA District (@TheNBADistrict) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNBADistrict\/status\/1657065111616356371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Raptors directors met with Sergio Scariolo \u2013 the Spain national team manager, regarding the available head coaching position at the franchise, Marca [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":435426,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17837,17079],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[19303,18089,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The Raptors are looking for their new head coach.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435425"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=435425"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=435425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}