Unpublished Newswire

The Toronto Raptors’ NBA championship-winning coach Nick Nurse’s farewell gift from the province of Ontario was a $700,000 foreign buyer’s tax liability. Nurse’s April 2023 departure from the Raptors was about as amicable as firings come, with the Raptors headlining their social media announcement of his termination as “forever grateful.” A few weeks later, the American coach penned his own note of thanks to “the city, the people, the country we’ve called home for the past 10 years” after landing a new gig as head coach of the Philadelphia 76ers, where he remains to this day. But...