Incoming Philly coach Nick Nurse and common season MVP Joel Embiid have had their justifiable share of beef however now the pair will mix forces.
The two have gone head-to-head loads of occasions prior to now 5 seasons with Nurse as Toronto’s coach.
And some of the notable encounters got here within the 2022 postseason.
Embiid had extra free throws than the complete Raptors staff throughout that recreation and Nurse was complaining about it to the refs, so Embiid advised him to “stop bitching”
Embiid was telling Nick Nurse to cease bitching about calls right here.
Brings me again to the Eastern Conference semis two years in the past. Nobody bitches about calls greater than Nick Nurse. Not Lebron, no one. pic.twitter.com/GExCnVVham
— Boston Sports Gordo (@BOSSportsGordo) April 19, 2022
“[Nurse] is a great coach, what he has been able to accomplish, I have always been a big fan, but I told him, respectfully, to stop bitching about calls,” Embiid mentioned on the time.
A more moderen jab Embiid took at Nurse was in Philly’s first spherical collection of this postseason in opposition to the Nets.
Embiid rekindled the meat when he in contrast Brooklyn coach Jacque Vaughn to Nurse as he known as for fouls in opposition to Embiid.
Now, Nurse is on the helm of the Sixers and regardless of their little beef, he defined that he has an enormous quantity of respect for giant man Embiid.
“I think that it’s been an interesting experience coaching against Joel,” Nurse mentioned. “We threw the whole lot virtually I feel you possibly can presumably throw at a man, as a result of it was that onerous for us to attempt to cease him. So we threw rather a lot at him. So not less than I feel that we are able to offensively say that is what we did and right here’s how we are able to beat it. And we’ve virtually coated [almost everything].
“The remainder of that, it’s simply, properly, it’s somewhat bit entertaining for me. I perceive there was some exchanges and issues … while you’re on the market and also you’re within the warmth of actually competing, I didn’t even actually keep in mind them. But I unintentionally had my TV on yesterday and I noticed a few them, and so they have been fairly good.
“It kind of grew to such a – for me anyway – respect level of him. We’d throw one thing and literally even in that playoff series a game later, he would adjust to it and we couldn’t do it.”
Nurse, Embiid and the remainder of the Sixers franchise will likely be hoping to make it previous the second spherical of the playoffs within the 2023-24 postseason, one thing the staff has struggled to do the final six seasons.
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