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‘There’s a lot of pride.’ Nick Nurse sees San Juan basketball success as a springboard for Canada’s Olympic quest

Nick Nurse has been in Milwaukee and Minneapolis, and aside from the travel he’s most certainly got enough on his plate to keep him busy with his primary job.

Yet he spent a bit of last week with one eye on Puerto Rico, keeping up with a basketball team that he hasn’t seen in person in more than a year, and he liked what he saw.

Nurse’s Canadian men’s team — which he wants to lead back to the Olympics for the first time in more than 20 years — earned a berth in the 2022 AmeriCup tournament with two straight wins over the U.