If Friday ushered in a new era in Raptorland, it didn’t feel much like one.

In a lot of ways, it probably should have. For the first time in 13 years, Masai Ujiri didn’t take the microphone for his usual media-day press conference. Fired as team president in June, a victim of a less than sure-handed post-championship rebuild and a fractious relationship with changing ownership, Ujiri wasn’t around to use his global citizen gravitas to sell his usual grand pronouncements from the mount.

So that felt different.

So did the messaging supplied by the new man in charge, Bobby Webster. The closest Webster came to delivering a grand pronouncement was to say he didn’t plan on making one. If Ujiri once famously announced his presence by hopping on a stage and shouting “F--- Brooklyn” in

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