Report: Raptors make surprising HC hire

The Toronto Raptors seem to have picked their subsequent head coach and it might not be who you’d anticipate.

Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN reported Saturday that the Raptors are hiring Darko Rajakovic as their subsequent coach. Rajakovic had coached as an assistant for the Memphis Grizzlies the final three seasons.

It’s definitely not a nasty rent for Toronto, who fired head coach Nick Nurse in April (with Nurse since touchdown a job to teach one other NBA group). The 44-year-old Rajakovic coached as an assistant for 5 years with the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder (underneath each Scott Brooks and Billy Donovan) then went on to work as an assistant for the Phoenix Suns (underneath Monty Williams) earlier than becoming a member of the Grizzlies underneath Taylor Jenkins.

However hardly anybody noticed that rent coming. An former NBA star was as soon as seen as the favourite for the Raptors job, with different candidates comparable to JJ Redick, Kenny Atkinson, Mike Budenholzer and Sergio Scariolo additionally wanting like that they had glorious possibilities. However Toronto has determined that Rajakovic is their alternative and so closes the final remaining head coach opening within the NBA.