{"id":625394,"date":"2026-05-05T19:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625394\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T19:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:24:08","slug":"sixers-coach-nick-nurse-reportedly-steps-away-from-team-tuesday-for-brothers-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625394\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers coach Nick Nurse reportedly steps away from team Tuesday for brother’s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> head coach Nick Nurse stepped away from the team on Tuesday to attend the funeral of his brother, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Steve Nurse, 62, reportedly died unexpectedly last Wednesday, the day before the Sixers\u2019 Game 6 against the Boston Celtics<\/a> in the first round. His brother\u2019s team went on to complete a historic 3-1 comeback to reach the Eastern Conference semifinals.<\/p>\n

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Nick reportedly traveled from New York to his hometown of Carroll, Iowa, on Monday night, following the Sixers\u2019 Game 1 loss against the New York Knicks<\/a>. He is expected to rejoin the team later Tuesday.<\/p>\n

In Nurse\u2019s absence, the Sixers reportedly held a film session on Tuesday but did not practice. They are scheduled to face the Knicks in Game 2 on Wednesday in New York (7 p.m. ET, ESPN).<\/p>\n

Nurse, who won an NBA title with the Toronto Raptors<\/a> in 2018-19, is in his third season with the Sixers. This is the farthest they have been in the playoffs during his tenure after posting a 45-37 record in the regular season and advancing through the NBA play-in tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers head coach Nick Nurse stepped away from the team on Tuesday to attend the funeral of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2242,355,361,113152,2113,99,1599,42537,2970],"class_list":["post-625394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-boston-celtics","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-nick-nurse","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-sports","tag-team","tag-the-philadelphia-inquirer","tag-toronto-raptors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}