{"id":650194,"date":"2026-05-05T21:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/650194\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:59:08","slug":"nick-nurse-steps-away-from-76ers-for-brothers-funeral-expected-back-for-game-2-vs-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/650194\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Nurse steps away from 76ers for brother&#8217;s funeral, expected back for Game 2 vs Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"philadelphia-76ers\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> coach Nick Nurse was away from the team Tuesday ahead of Game 2 of its second-round playoff series against the New York Knicks to attend the funeral of his brother.<\/p>\n<p>Nurse&#8217;s brother Steve Nurse, 62, died unexpectedly last Wednesday. Nick Nurse left the team following\u00a0Philadelphia&#8217;s 137-98 loss to open the second round against the Knicks\u00a0on Monday for the service on Tuesday in Ankeny, Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Nurse is expected to rejoin the Sixers for Game 2 on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;d like to pass my condolences along to Nick Nurse and his family, his brother&#8217;s family and all their friends,&#8221; Knicks coach Mike Brown said at the team&#8217;s training center in suburban Greenburgh. \u201cLife is precious and you don&#8217;t wish that upon anybody, so I&#8217;d like to pass along my condolences to him and his family while they&#8217;re going through these times.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Philadelphia 76ers coach Nick Nurse was away from the team Tuesday ahead of Game 2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-650194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}