For a team like the Toronto Raptors, sometimes it’s hard to become the center of attention in the NBA, even once you win your first-ever NBA championship. Sometimes it matters, sometimes it doesn’t.
For someone like Nick Nurse, head coach of the Toronto Raptors, it probably doesn’t matter all that much. He’s his own man. Maybe that’s why he’s become a favourite among NBA coaches in the league since his arrival.
Beforehand, Nurse was well-versed and well-traveled, spending time overseas in the British Basketball League as well as the G-League with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers. Success has followed him around the globe, but it’s his personality that has helped him stick out in a pool of vibrant, and sometimes melodramatic coaches.