Nick Nurse is no stranger to receiving random, out-of-the-blue text messages from OG Anunoby.
This past summer, for example, something to the effect of “Hey coach, how do I get on the floor in the fourth quarter?” popped up on Nurse’s screen from the 21-year-old’s number.
“I’ll say, ‘You need to defend and make shots,’ ” Nurse remember. “He’ll be like, ‘I do that already.