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“There’s been very little, if any at all, talk about basketball.” The fine details of the NBA’s return-to-play plans have mostly remained secondary for Nick Nurse and the Raptors. (Via michaelgrange)

to reconvene the 2019-20 regular season with 22 teams within a so-called ‘Quarantine Bubble’ at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando. There will be an eight-game conclusion to the regular season scheduled to begin July 31, followed by a traditional four-round playoff that will decide an NBA championFor the record, Nurse likes his team’s chances.

“And I think this team loves to play, we love to compete, we love to try to figure things out, and at the end of the day, with everything else that’s going on, when you finally get [to Disney World] and the ball goes up, can you laser focus in and get the job at hand done?” There has been some discussion about the higher seeds being given some kind of reward that home court would have otherwise conferred – an extra coach’s challenge or an extra possession or two during the game – but nothing has been finalized yet.“Are we disappointed? We worked hard to get a high seed and home-court advantage, but I don’t know how much home court affected things last year,” he said. “If you want me to be honest, the Finals seemed to affect it.

“I love telling this story. In the Belgian National Cup, they let in every team in the country from every division. In the first division [where Nurse was coaching] the guys are pretty good; the guys are getting paid. But it falls off pretty quickly after that, [to] second, third division [and] fourth where guys are just playing at night when they get home from [work or] whatever,” he said.

 

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