Raptors general manager Bobby Webster has lauded 2019/20 Coach Of The Year candidate Nick Nurse without expressly defining a timeline for Nurse’s potential contract extension.
“Nick obviously has done an incredible job for us and those (types) of conversations are always top of mind for us,” Webster said, per Michael Grange of Rogers Sportsnet (Twitter link).
Nurse inked a three-year, $10MM deal with the Raptors in 2018 that will keep him on the sidelines through the 2020/21 NBA season. During his first year as head coach, the Raptors won the 2019 NBA Finals. This season, the 46-18 Raptors are the No. 2 seed in the East and the team had two 2020 All-Star representatives in Pascal Siakam and Kyle Lowry, despite having lost Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard in 2019 free agency.
“Obviously, (the) timeline’s a little different this year,” Webster noted when asked about a potential extension for Nurse (Twitter link via Blake Murphy of The Athletic).
There’s more out of Toronto:
- Webster indicated today that the team’s front office has held conversations with about 50 or 60 potential 2020 draft picks thus far, per Blake Murphy of The Athletic (Twitter link). How the Raptors appraise those prospects remains relatively up in the air and contingent on COVID-19 numbers and league guidance as to whether or not individual player workouts or a draft combine will be permitted this season.
- The Raptors are among the few teams present for the NBA’s summer restart at the Walt Disney World Resort whose traveling team includes both of their top front office executives, president Masai Ujiri and Webster, per Michael Grange of Rogers Sportsnet. “I think you guys know how we operate, and having both of us here is good to take care of things here on the ground,” Webster noted on a conference call with reporters today.
- The Raptors are eagerly anticipating their first return to NBA action tomorrow, in a scrimmage game against the Rockets, according to Josh Lewenberg of TSN Sports. “It’s huge that we get to play basketball again and I’m excited,” Toronto guard Patrick McCaw said. “It’s a different type of atmosphere, no fans and things like that. The focus is just going to be on us, and just basketball.”
0 people in toronto longing for the days of bryan “daddy’s useless boy who knows nothing and is generally idiotic” colangelo.
Come now, he wasn’t such an idiot that he knew nothing. He failed to mature as a person should, especially where given the powers he enjoyed over a franchise. And against Ujiri most executives in sports look like fools who skipped a lot of classes on professional sports management. He’s a tough guy to be measured against.
Nick Nurse looks like a coach on The Voice in this picture
I’m not sure exactly why but he reminds me a bit of Penn Gillette in the picture.
It’s his theatrical presence, his ability to look dumbfounded when you know he knows better, and the facial hair.
I remember that show he and Teller did a few years ago when they would go to malls and mess with people. Once time they had them signing petitions to ban Dihydrogen Monoxide, and most people went ahead and signed without knowing that’s just a rarely used chemical name for water.