The Toronto Raptors are appointing general manager Bobby Webster as the team's head of basketball operations and the sides have reached a new contract, sources told ESPN on Monday.

Webster succeeds his former boss, Masai Ujiri, as the lead Raptors executive. The Raptors parted ways with Ujiri on June 27, one day after the NBA draft, and announced that it had enlisted CAA Executive Search to assist in hiring a new team president. Webster will remain in the GM role.

Webster joined the Raptors in 2013 as Ujiri's first hire, rising from vice president of strategy and assistant general manager roles to the GM spot, and now lands the organization's foremost authority position.

Webster, 40, is entering his 21st season working in the NBA, beginning with a role at the league office from 2006-1

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