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.