Toronto Raptors announced Tuesday that head coach Nick Nurse has been signed to a multi-year contract extension.The announcement comes four days after the Raptors were bounced from the second round of the NBA playoffs, and the Disney bubble, by the Boston Celtics.The deal is a win-win for the organization and Nurse himself, who became Toronto’s head coach on June 13, 2018, following the dismissal of Dwane Casey.
Toronto Raptors sign head coach Nick Nurse to multi-year extension At the time, no one really knew what kind of head coach Nurse would be, only knowing that he had been an effective assistant coach with the club for five seasons.But the 53-year-old Nurse handled Kawhi Leonard’s load management situation to perfection in 2018-19.