Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri will hold an end-of-season media availability on Friday after parting ways with the team’s head coach Nick Nurse.

“The decision to make a change like this is never arrived at easily or taken lightly, especially when it comes to a person who has been an integral part of this franchise’s most historic accomplishments,” Ujiri said in a statement.

“This is an opportunity for us to reset, to refocus, to put into place the personnel and the players who will help us reach our goal of winning our next championship.”

Nurse joined the Raptors in 2013 as an assistant coach, before being named head coach in June 2018. In his first season, he guided Toronto to 58 wins and became the ninth rookie head coach in NBA history to win a championship in their first year.

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