Nick Nurse, who guided the Toronto Raptors to the 2019 NBA title, has agreed to turn out to be the brand new coach of the Philadelphia 76ers, ESPN reported on Monday.
Nurse and the Raptors cut up in April after his fifth season guiding the Canadian membership, which included him profitable the NBA Coach of the Year award in 2020.
According to the report, which cited unnamed sources, Nurse will take over a Sixers squad that pushed Boston to seven video games earlier than dropping within the Eastern Conference semi-finals, which prompted the firing of coach Doc Rivers earlier this month.
The 76ers had misplaced in the identical spherical of the playoffs three consecutive seasons beneath Rivers.
Philadelphia final received the NBA title in 1983 however the Sixers have NBA Most Valuable Player and scoring chief Joel Embiid of Cameroon and star guard James Harden as they attempt to attain the NBA Finals for the primary time since 2001.
Nurse and 76ers president of basketball operations Daryl Morey know one another from Nurse’s two seasons teaching the highest improvement membership of the Houston Rockets whereas Morey was basic supervisor of the Rockets. — Agence France-Presse
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