Eric Khoury drops a reference to Newton’s laws of motion early in the conversation, makes mention of his Master’s thesis and then speaks of using the reams of data available to discern the predictive nature of sports.
No, the new man in charge of the Raptors905 is not a hoops lifer cut from the same cloth as many professional coaches.
But there sat the 33-year-old Toronto native on Wednesday, all settled in as the new head coach of the Raptors’ Mississauga-based G League affiliate, a testament to chasing one’s goals as unlikely they may be and to combining passions for learning and for sports that can take a man in many different directions.