The never-ending search for ideas — finding something to tweak to suit their own purposes — leads coaches across all kinds of boundaries and into all kinds of sports. It was what led the Raptors’ Nick Nurse to the football fields of Southern California last summer. That, and a lifelong love of the Los Angeles Rams.
Not long after Nurse became the head coach of the Raptors, he spent time at the Rams’ training camp, observing and picking the brain of head coach Sean McVay, a young and innovative leader.