The Philadelphia 76ers have reached an settlement to make Nick Nurse their subsequent head coach, ESPN reported Monday.
Nurse, 55, was dismissed by the Toronto Raptors in April after 5 seasons as their head coach, a tenure that included the 2019 NBA title in his first season on the helm.
He was in Toronto for the previous 10 seasons general, beginning as an assistant coach from 2013-18. Nurse had a 227-163 document in 5 seasons because the Raptors’ head coach. He can be the top coach of the Canadian males’s nationwide workforce.
Nurse might be tasked with changing Doc Rivers, whose 76ers made the NBA playoffs in every of his three seasons as head coach earlier than dropping within the second spherical every time. The 76ers fired Rivers on May 17 after the 76ers bowed out in seven video games to the Boston Celtics.
He inherits a workforce anchored by league MVP Joel Embiid. Nurse and Embiid have some historical past as opponents, and after a 76ers playoff win over the Brooklyn Nets final month, Embiid mentioned the Nets “kind of took the Nick Nurse route of begging for free throws.”
Nurse’s Raptors eradicated the 76ers in seven video games within the 2019 Eastern Conference semifinals.
ESPN reported that the Phoenix Suns have been additionally taken with Nurse for his or her head-coaching emptiness.
—Field Level Media/Reuters
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