QUEBEC CITY—Brittni Donaldson has a long and impressive resumé that helped get her a job as a Toronto Raptors assistant coach. It includes analytic analysis and video work and one skill that Raptors head coach Nick Nurse might appreciate more than the others: She can play.
Donaldson, who will move from the video room to the bench this season as the 10th female assistant coach in the league and the first in franchise history, was a legendary high school and university player and shooter in her native Iowa, a trait Nurse loves.
“She is a great shooter, which will help her be able to teach shooting at some point in her in her career, which I highly value,” Nurse said Monday.