NEW YORK – Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri discussed the choice of Nick Nurse as the team’s new head coach and the negative tweets linked to former mentor Bryan Colangelo’s resignation in an exclusive interview with The Athletic while receiving the Women In Sports and Events Champion award.



Nurse, 50, will take over as head coach, and according to ESPN, he has agreed to a three-year, nearly $10 million deal. He was previously an assistant coach under Casey with the Raptors for the past five seasons. Before joining the Raptors, Nurse won two NBA Development League championships (2011 and 2013) and won Coach of the Year in 2011.



“We think he’s a great coach in the making,” Ujiri told The Athletic on Wednesday. “I think, hopefully, this is his chance. We believe in him. We’ve always studied what Nick has done, and I think he has good experience as an assistant. He’s a good, creative mind that I think...