In the late stages of Game 4, as the Raptors’ win began to look like more of a sure thing, Nick Nurse saw an opening for a joke with one of his star players.
He asked Kyle Lowry -- whose 22-point, 11-rebound and seven-assist night came in a tidy 44 minutes -- if he wanted to get subbed out.
“I did check with him a couple times but I was just joking. I asked him if he needed a sub, with kind of smile. You know...he chewed me out,” Nurse said, laughing after his team evened its series with Boston.