Stephen A. reacts to the Raptors firing head coach Nick Nurse | First Take
Stephen A. Smith reacts to the news that the Toronto Raptors fired head coach Nick Nurse.
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22 Comments
With all do respect to Derozan and Casey they were absolutely not capable of wining the chip. His gameplans were simply not good enough and Derozan would’ve gotten exposed at the 3pt line against the 76ers and especially the Warriors he was never superstar quality.
Derozan's a bonefide scrub
Stephen A is absolutely the worst NBA "analyst" there is. Absolutely horrible takes. Kendrick is second worst.
Unbelievable…. Who fires their championship coach? This is a new day
Dwayne Casey was fired even tho he was the coach of the year the same year. That’s crazy 😂
This type of revisionism is the worst.
It's one thing to bloviate about what you think might happen in the future…
It's blasphemy to attempt to rewrite history in order to diminish the achievements of others.
If Nick Nurse was black, SAS be like, “blasphemy, blasphemy, blasphemy”. Hypocrite MF-er!
This is such disrespect. Almost EVERY other team that wins championships does so with MULTIPLE stars. Nurse did it with one, and a mercurial one at that.
Ridiculous! Did you already forget what Kahwi did in those playoffs? He willed his team to victory. And Nurse pushed all the right buttons. And one more thing: How many rings does Casey have as head coach?
I keep it simple, this is a bad take. Demar chokes in the playoffs.
I agree except for the Demar take. We ain't getting past Bucks or the Sixers without Kawhi.
Sad to him gone but he’ll get picked up by a rebuilding team
stephen smith speaking because of biases. Raptors down 0-3 wouldn't overcome the bucks if Derozan would be the one guarding Giannis instead of Kawhi.
DeRozan never could've played at Kawhi's MJ-level in the playoffs that got the ring.
Stephen A trying to play the
“Race Card” with Dwayne Casey to limit the credibility of a “Championship Winning Coach” because he’s White. The fact that they got Kawhi Leoanrd and Nurse was the coach is why the won the finals along with Warriors having health issues. The Raptors team was stacked Gasol, Lowry, Kawhi, Danny Green, Ibaka, Van Vleet, Powell, and Boucher.
Stephen a Smith gotta get of the weed with that take, man wins a ring for clips and he just discredits both the coach and Kawhi. Like Leonard didn’t game the sixers, like he didn’t ball out vs Bucks, Demar is an all star some years Kawhi is mvp caliber when healthy (which fair enough now seems to be never lol) and Nick Nurse coached that team to the finals when no one picked them. They would have lost to Warriors if KD and Klay played but that’s besides the point lol
No way the raptors beat the bucks that year with demar instead of kawhi
Stephen your racism is showing… Casey was let go for a reason. Derozan was traded for a reason.
Is anyone surprised Stephen A degraded a white person so he can show he supports black people? Cuz I’m not
-Hello, is this Mark Jackson?
-Hello, who are you?
-You wanna coach?
Stephen A the worst analyst in sports
Demar DeRozan not beating the warriors. SA a Kawhi hater lol 😂