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After a wild summer of celebrating a Raptors championship and coaching Canada's men's basketball team, Nick Nurse has savoured it all.

captured their first NBA championship in June, Nick Nurse received a video via text from the Chicago Cubs."Nick, great job on the great run to the championship, bud. That was super," Pressy said in the video. "Now make sure I see you in the summer here at Wrigley Field. Make sure you bring the hardware and make sure you bring your singing voice because we’d love to have you do the stretch.

"I just kind of always wondered how I could get myself up to do the seventh inning stretch to just sing the song," Nurse laughed. "I never really had any ideas how to get there and now I have one. Winning an NBA title is a pretty good way of doing it." He was an assistant on the Great Britain squad at the 2012 London Games. A couple of highlights included meeting the Queen and living among some of the world’s greatest sports stars in the athletes’ village.These past six weeks with the national team have him confident he can get Canada to Tokyo. He’s already formulating a plan.

Canada played Germany in its final FIBA World Cup game in China on Monday, and when the camera panned the team, Nurse was singing along to "O Canada."Besides, the players he has here have grown on him.

 

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