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Nick Nurse: 'Canada ready for second NBA team'

Nick Nurse was bullish about the growth of basketball in Canada and suggested the country is in a much better position now to sustain a second NBA franchise. Toronto's head coach was speaking after the Raptors played a full-squad scrimmage game in front of a sell-out crowd in Victoria, BC.

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- What'd you think of the officiating?

[LAUGHTER]

NICK NURSE: Really solid. Those guys have been solid all week. And they came out and continued it tonight, yeah.

- All the guys agree? No. But I think most of them. I saw a couple guys complaining.