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Nick Nurse wins NBA Coach of the Year award in second season with the Raptors

Toronto’s Nick Nurse won the league’s top coaching award on Saturday.

Nurse was named the NBA’s Coach of the Year, running away with the award in just his second year as a head coach in the league.

Nick Nurse received majority of 1st place votes

Nurse earned 90 first-place votes among the 100 media members who voted, picking up 470 total points. Milwaukee Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer came in second with five first-place votes. Oklahoma City Thunder coach Billy Donovan came in third.

Both Donovan and Budenholzer tied for the National Basketball Coaches Association Coach of the Year award earlier this month — an award voted on by the league’s 30 coaches.