Daily News | Nick Nurse’s first mission: Getting the Sixers to play team ball
Five words that were once whispers in dreams can now be shouted by Sixers fans with a force that will rattle Philly’s sports landscape down to its historic core.Nick Nurse has agreed to join the Sixers as not only their best coaching hire since Larry Brown, but perhaps the perfect match for MVP Joel Embiid.With Joel Embiid’s blessing, Sixers and Nick Nurse should have agreed to terms days ago
Despite posting the league’s third-highest total of regular-season wins during his three seasons, Rivers was let go after three straight second-round exits. Embiid is the best player that Nurse will coach since winning the title in 2019 with Leonard, a member of the NBA’s 75th anniversary team. Yet there’s a lot of uncertainty with the Sixers in large part because of James Harden. Harden, also a member of that 75th anniversary team, intends to opt out of the final year of his Sixers contract to become a free agent in July.
At the same time, Nurse must help Embiid solve the defensive tactics similar to what Nurse’s team used against the big fella. The Raptors also felt like they didn’t get the benefit of the doubt when it came to drawing fouls. Toronto forward Pascal Siakam was 17th in the league in free-throw attempts at 6.7 per game.
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