{"id":433724,"date":"2023-04-21T11:40:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T15:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=433724"},"modified":"2023-04-21T11:08:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T15:08:35","slug":"ime-udoka-favorite-to-take-over-from-nick-nurse","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ime-udoka-favorite-to-take-over-from-nick-nurse\/","title":{"rendered":"Ime Udoka favorite to take over from Nick Nurse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/toronto-raptors\/\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> fired Nick Nurse, the franchise already has in mind who will replace him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Should the Raptors bring in Ime Udoka? ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cYGAgVb5s4\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/cYGAgVb5s4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 theScore Bet (@theScoreBet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theScoreBet\/status\/1649414812378472451?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, is the main candidate for the position, according to ESPN&#8217;s reporter Adrian Wojnarowski.<\/p>\n<p>Nick can continue to be a head coach in the NBA as Houston Rockets are currently looking for HC. Nurse was part of Toronto coaching staff for 10 years, the last 5 of them as head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Udoka left Boston after a scandal for a problematic relationship with a female employee in the franchise. First, Ime was suspended but then replaced by Joe Mazzulla in February.<\/p>\n<p>Udoka was hired by Boston in 2021 to replace Brad Stevens, who became a director in Celtic&#8217;s front office.<\/p>\n<p>With him, the franchise finished 51-31 in 21-22 and won the Atlantic Division. Celtics also reached the NBA Finals, but <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/golden-state-warriors\/\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> defeated them in 6 matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Toronto Raptors fired Nick Nurse, the franchise already has in mind who will replace him. Should the Raptors bring in Ime Udoka? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":433725,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17543,17837,18939,17079],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18941,18940,18089,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The former Boston Celtics coach has a high chance of joining the Raptors.","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\/433724"}],"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=433724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433724"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433724"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}