Toronto Raptors head coach Nick Nurse revealed that he’ll look to ponder his future following the 2022-23 season.
Prior to their 117-110 loss towards the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday, Nurse admitted in entrance of the media that he’ll weigh his time to take a deep reflection on whether or not he’ll select to stay or not because the Raptors’ head coach.
“First of all, I think when this season gets done, we’ll evaluate everything, and even personally, I’m gonna take a few weeks to see where I’m at, you know? Like you said, where my head’s at. And just see how the relationship with the organization is and everything. It’s been 10 years for me now, which is a pretty good run. I don’t know, over those 10 years we got to be up there in number of wins with anybody in the league. I don’t know even know where that is, but we’ve had a lot of big seasons,” Nurse stated, via ESPN’s Tim Bontemps.
“And then, right now, my head is to make this as long of a season as possible. This team needs playoff experience. So that is where I’m at right now … finish out these six, see where we land, see if we can’t creep up a spot or two in the standings, and then give them hell in the playoffs, see if we can get in a real series and take it from there.”
Nurse has been tied with Toronto since being tapped by Dwane Casey as his assistant in 2013.
After 5 years of shortcomings underneath the management of Casey, the Raps known as Nurse to primarily lead them. And in his first 12 months of being a head coach, he shortly guided the franchise to its first title with Kawhi Leonard rising as their one-year savior.
After their championship marketing campaign in 2018-19, the Raptors have maintained their success, however finally went on to be inconsistent as the next years went on. After qualifying in the playoffs final season, they now discover themselves in the depths of the East with a 38-38 report.
Due to struggles and inconsistencies, the membership has been a predominant part of commerce chatter till midseason, however they nonetheless proceeded to compete and stay intact upon the addition of Jakob Poeltl. Now, they’re but to see the restoration that they’re aspiring for with two weeks left till the season concludes.
A possible departure of Nurse quickly in the offseason can solely be thought-about a significant domino for the Raptors to lastly enter a brand new stage of their franchise books.
