Nick Nurse was named NBA Coach of the Year on Saturday after leading the Toronto Raptors to the league’s third-best record despite the team’s top five scorers missing at least 11 games each.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse was named the NBA’s Coach of the Year for the 2019-20 season Saturday afternoon. Nurse, who led the Raptors to an NBA championship last season in his first as the team’s head coach, received 90 of the 100 possible first place votes from media members tapped to vote on the league’s end-of-season awards after leading Toronto to a second-place finish in the Eastern Conference for a second-straight season despite the departure of NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard in free agency. «When you see Nick on the sidelines, that’s who he is as a person.
