After referees ejected him from Friday night’s dramatic win over the San Antonio Spurs, but before Nick Nurse actually left the court, the Raptors head coach paused to send last-minute instructions to assistant coaches Adrian Griffin and Nate Bjorkgren.
The advice was simple: Share the burden and work together.
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Nurse hadn’t planned to end the first game of a critical stretch of the regular season sitting in his office, watching his team play on a monitor.