Max Kerman’s first email address, which is now inactive, was vince_kerman@hotmail.com.



“When I went to university and met people they’d say, ‘Why is it Vince? Isn’t your name Max?’” Kerman, frontman of Hamilton rockers Arkells said on Monday. “And I thought, ‘OK, I should probably change this at this point.’”



The alias was a homage to Vince Carter, who at the time of the address’s creation was the star of the Raptors, Kerman’s favourite team then and now. Growing up in Toronto, Kerman was a Raptors obsessive, which paid off years later for the team’s head coach. Nick Nurse got to live out his rock star dreams over the weekend as he joined Kerman’s band at Budweiser Stage, capacity 16,000, for a performance of Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours.”



Earlier in the playoffs, Nurse compared his guitar skills to that of a golfer who...