Raptors sit Pascal Siakam for disciplinary reasons
“It was a discipline thing for an internal matter,” Raptors coach Nick Nurse
The Toronto Raptors sat Pascal Siakam in win against Knicks for disciplinary reasons.
Per ESPN,“It was a discipline thing for an internal matter,” Raptors coach Nick Nurse said after his team won its first game of the season. “That’s the decision we went with. We’re just going to keep it at that.”
When asked what message he hoped Siakam’s benching would send to the team, Nurse said, “Just a certain way we want to do things. Everybody has got to be a part of that. It’s just as simple as that.”
While Nurse wouldn’t go into specifics about what led to the decision to bench Siakam, the 26-year-old forward fouled out of Tuesday’s 100-93 loss to the 76ers with 25.6 seconds to go, and he immediately walked off the court and into the visiting locker room inside Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center.