Nick Nurse doesn’t know the fate of some of his top players or whether a key assistant or two might be going. There’s no certainty that his bosses will be around for the long term, and it’s anyone’s guess whether or not he’ll coach Canada in an Olympic qualifier, let alone the Tokyo Games.
The Toronto Raptors head coach doesn’t know when his off-season plans can be fully put into place, he’s in the dark as much as anybody about when he might coach an NBA game again, and he’s just come off one of the most emotional seasons of his more than three decades on a basketball bench.