The Sixers' search for a new head coach is over. The team hired Nick Nurse on Monday, a source confirmed to The Inquirer. Read more:
Stay or Go: Which Sixers should remain in Philly and who should move on? Swipe and DecideNurse has led an intriguing basketball journey, from the British Basketball League, to the D League , to becoming an NBA assistant before being elevated to the Raptors’ head coach after Dwane Casey’s firing following the 2017-18 season. And Nurse has been a championship winner and Coach of the Year at every level, including when he got his NBA head-coaching opportunity.
The Raptors fired Nurse following this season, however, after Toronto failed to advance out of the play-in tournament and relationships between some players and Nurse reportedly turned prickly. Outside belief existed that the Raptors might execute a midseason pivot into rebuilding mode by trading key players at the February deadline, but they held steady and finished with a 41-41 regular-season record before losing at home to the Chicago Bulls in their first play-in game.
This hiring also reunites Nurse with Sixers president of basketball operations Daryl Morey, as both were previously with the Houston Rockets organization. Nurse was coach of the D League-affiliate Rio Grande Valley Vipers for two seasons, winning the title in 2013. His offensive style predicated on floor-spacing, and driving and kicking out for three-pointers already aligned with the Rockets’ philosophy at the time.
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