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Not all NBA coaches have embraced their newly granted power of coach’s challenges. Toronto coach Nick Nurse jokingly hugged his assistants when he won his first challenge earlier this week.
It’s no small feat.
Entering play Friday, only 36 percent of coach’s challenges had been successful.
But Thunder coach Billy Donovan is on a hot streak. Donovan won a challenge Tuesday at Indiana, and another Friday night. Philadelphia forward Tobias Harris lost control of the ball when he drove into the lane during a fourth quarter play, but officials ruled a Thunder player touched the ball prior to it going out of bounds.