The NBA is becoming more and more about roster flexibility and lineup versatility, and new Raptors coach Nick Nurse has been presented with a unique opportunity in his first year on the job. The former assistant, elevated to the No. 1 seat after Dwane Casey was fired in May, will have any number of intriguing decisions to make when he gets his team together for training camp in September. It is early, and president Masai Ujiri and general manager Bobby Webster may still have moves up their sleeves, but Nurse has to be thinking already about what precisely his lineup possibilities are.
How the Raptors might look on opening night
