Toronto Raptors, Canada coach Nick Nurse savours sweet summer - TSN.ca

SHANGHAI — The day after the Toronto Raptors 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.

The 52-year-old coach saved the video on his phone. Sitting in a meeting room of the Canadian team's posh Shanghai hotel on Monday morning, he played it with a proud smile.Nurse has barely had time to pause and soak it all in. There was the sun-drenched and champagne-soaked championship parade. Jamming on stage with Arkells in black jeans and bomber jacket."Nick Nurse Day" in his home state of Iowa.

The story in China has been about Canada's NBA players who didn't show up. The cliffhanger? Who exactly will suit up when Canada battles for one of the four remaining berths at a second-chance Olympic qualifying tournament next June."From a logistics or tactical thing, has been a really good learning experience for me to figure out where we're going. I've learned a lot about the setup, the team, the structure of FIBA, just everything. I'm ready now," he said.

So the invitation to sing during the seventh-inning stretch was a full-circle moment For Nurse. To rehearse, he sang the song with his son Leo, who's two-and-a-half. . Nurse, who grew up in Carroll, Iowa, a town of 10,000, doesn't wear it well. It's still an uncomfortable fit. Nurse had played the moment over and over so many times in his head, imagining the final buzzer sounding on the NBA championship win.

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