{"id":726575,"date":"2026-05-05T20:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/726575\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:03:22","slug":"nick-nurse-steps-away-from-76ers-for-brothers-funeral-expected-back-for-game-2-vs-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/726575\/","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 (AP) \u2014 <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Philadelphia 76ers;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Philadelphia 76ers&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> coach Nick Nurse was away from the team Tuesday ahead of Game 2 of its second-round playoff series against the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/new-york\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Knicks;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York Knicks&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/knicks-76ers-score-nba-playoffs-e5b78409396408bd5c8984bf93abe59c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Philadelphia&#039;s 137-98 loss to open the second round against the Knicks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Philadelphia&#039;&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Philadelphia&#8217;s 137-98 loss to open the second round against the Knicks<\/a> on Monday for the service on Tuesday in Ankeny, Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/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<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Philadelphia 76ers coach Nick Nurse was away from the team Tuesday ahead of Game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,90163,4459,6,191,6724,678,207,3817],"class_list":["post-726575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-76ers","tag-76ers","tag-basketball","tag-brother-steve-nurse","tag-coach-mike-brown","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-nick-nurse","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia76ers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116523761879472339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}