Nick Nurse would be in one of those mass summer workouts — maybe around the Summer League season, or after that in California or Nevada or Florida — where a variety of NBA players and those searching for jobs would be going through their paces.
He’d notice Svi Mykhailiuk every now and then, see how hard he was working, how much more varied his game was than many had thought, and it stuck with him.
When the chance came for the Raptors to pick up the 24-year-old forward, Nurse immediately thought that was a solid idea.