The Toronto Raptors hosted their former head coach and his new team, the Philadelphia 76ers, at Scotiabank Arena tonight and given Nurse’s “homecoming;” the recent history between these two teams; and the bizarro vibes still hanging around the Raptors following Friday’s mystifying loss to the Chicago Bulls, you might have expected another weird one.
Instead, this one went pretty much by the book, with the Raptors, an oddly-constructed team still trying to find its identity under a brand new coach, falling to the team with the the MVP and former Coach of the Year, 114-107.