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Masai Ujiri is a quote machine at the Canadian Basketball Speakers Forum

Ahead of this weekend's CIS Men's Basketball Championships, a number of Canadian hoops personalities came together to discuss the state of the game in Canada Monday Night. As usual, it appears Masai Ujiri stole the show.

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On Monday night, the Canadian Basketball Speakers Forum was held at Ryerson University as CIS Championship Week kicked off. Among the speakers: Leo Rautins, Glen Grunwald, Canada Basketball CEO Wayne Parrish and Raptors GM Masai Ujiri.

In attendance were the National Post's Eric Koreen and Sun Media's Ryan Wolstat. As they detailed, Ujiri - as he's apt to do - gave some of the more quotable lines of the night.

Before the fireworks, there were numerous panels discussing the globalization of the sport, the strides Canada is set to make on the international scene and the full complement of players that will be working with the Canadian National Team this summer:

The night's final speaker was Ujiri. And things got real when he started talking about adding a Canadian flavour to the Raptors' roster:

Whoa. That's not quite Drake urging the OVO Festival crowd to collectively attempt to woo Kevin Durant, but that's getting dangerously close to borderline tampering, no?

He then continued dropping golden nuggets:

He then wrapped up with some boring talk about building a sustainable winner in Toronto:

That's fine and dandy. But can we get back to that mysterious and potentially Canadian player he was hinting at?

What are your thoughts on Monday night's comments by the Raptors boss?