As their seek for a head coach continues following the firing of Nick Nurse, the Toronto Raptors could also be all for bringing again a well-recognized face for the position.
This week, Italian sports activities journalist Alessandro Luigi Maggi reported that members of the Raptors’ entrance workplace traveled to Bologna, Italy, for an interview with former assistant coach Sergio Scariolo.
Scariolo, who’s at the moment serving as head coach of Virtus Bologna of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A and head coach of the senior Spain nationwide crew, was with Toronto from 2018 to 2021.
In keeping with Maggi, crew president Masai Ujiri and normal supervisor Bobby Webster had been in attendance for the assembly.
The Toronto Raptors traveled to Bologna for an interview with Sergio Scariolo, as reported by Il Carlino, Corriere di Bologna, and confirmed by Repubblica.
The assembly came about on Thursday, Might 11, on the Majestic Lodge. The franchise’s head, Masai Ujiri, and Normal Supervisor…
— Alessandro Luigi Maggi (@AlessandroMagg4) May 12, 2023
Maggi additionally reported that the 62-year-old instructed his present membership that he could be assembly with Toronto. “The Raptors requested Virtus for permission to conduct this assembly, they arrived yesterday, they usually left this morning,” he mentioned. “It was an excellent assembly, virtually like with mates as a result of I received a title with them: I consider that issues had been completed accurately and transparently.”
Sergio Scariolo on Toronto Raptors’s interview: «I’ve requested and knowledgeable the Membership about this interview with the Raptors. The Raptors requested Virtus for permission to conduct this assembly, they arrived yesterday, they usually left this morning. It was an excellent assembly, virtually like with…
— Alessandro Luigi Maggi (@AlessandroMagg4) May 12, 2023
Scariolo, who’s the primary Italian coach to win an NBA championship, additionally served as interim head coach of the Raptors for one sport in opposition to the Houston Rockets after Nick Nurse and 5 assistants missed the sport as a result of NBA’s well being and security protocols. The Raptors received that sport by a rating of 122–111.
Whereas Scariolo looks like a logical selection for the place, he’s in no way the one candidate the crew is contemplating.
Earlier this week, Sportsnet’s Michael Grange floated the potential of former NBA participant JJ Redick making the transition from the desk of ESPN’s FirstTake and his personal Previous Man and the Three podcast to Toronto’s bench subsequent season as a alternative for Nurse.
“There are some wild playing cards, with former Raptors head coach Dwane Casey thought to have registered curiosity and one supply suggesting that Toronto has regarded into the potential of veteran NBA sharpshooter, turned podcaster, turned broadcaster JJ Redick — who has spoken brazenly about the potential of entering into teaching — as being head coach materials,” Grange wrote in an article yesterday exploring Toronto’s choices.
ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski later confirmed that Toronto did in actual fact meet Redick for a first-round interview.
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With recordsdata from Each day Hive’s Adam Laskaris
