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Coach Nurse’s summer of fun arrives at basketball’s biggest international stage

Watch Nick Nurse in the throes of a unique summer job, patrolling the sidelines in his Canada hoodie or shooting shirt and doing what he does.

Exhorting here and there, a quick hand slap to a player leaving the game for a job well done, a fast aside to an official about some call made or missed.

Always working but seemingly always relaxed, as comfortable leading a bunch of players he barely knows in an international exhibition as he was in games for the highest NBA stakes.

Unruffled, unperturbed, loving every minute of it as the head coach of Canada’s senior men’s team that returns to the biggest international stage next week for the first time since 2010 — at the FIBA World Cup in China.