{"id":433721,"date":"2023-04-21T10:52:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T14:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=433721"},"modified":"2023-04-21T10:52:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T14:52:54","slug":"toronto-raptors-fire-nick-nurse","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/toronto-raptors-fire-nick-nurse\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors fire Nick Nurse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/toronto-raptors\/\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> reported that they sacked Nick Nurse, who will not be coming back as head coach for the next season. Nurse won the NBA championship in 2019 with the franchise.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Toronto Raptors have parted ways with head coach Nick Nurse, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ShamsCharania<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YhyaDFrqe5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/YhyaDFrqe5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/1649411519145299982?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ime Udoka, ex-Celtics head coach, has a big chance to be the new head coach of the Raptors.<\/p>\n<p>Nick (55) spent 5 seasons with Toronto and had a 227-163 record. He won 2 Atlantic Division titles and led Raptors to 3 playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision to make a change like this is never arrived at easily or taken lightly, especially when it comes to a person who has been an integral part of this franchise\u2019s most historic accomplishments and who has been a steady leader through some of our team\u2019s most challenging times. &#8211; President Ujiri announced.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian team failed to make the postseason in 2023 after losing against <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/chicago-bulls\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/chicago-bulls\/\">Chicago Bulls<\/a><\/a> 109-105 in the East nine-ten Play-in match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Raptors reported that they sacked Nick Nurse, who will not be coming back as head coach for the next season. Nurse won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":433722,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17837,18939,17079],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[18940,18089,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Toronto dismissed their head coach.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433723,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433721\/revisions\/433723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433721"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433721"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}