“It’s kind of crazy to think that we’re here, given where we started,” said Finch, who was an assistant to Nurse with the Raptors last year until he left midway through the season to take the head coaching position with Minnesota, a perennial also-ran he’s helping turn around. “We have great respect for each other. That trumps everything. Friendship is always there regardless. We’ve been really supportive. We lean on each other a lot, having come into a lot of different situations where we’ve experienced the same kind of pushback or obstacle or challenges, how we manage those things kind of as outsiders. We didn’t go to North Carolina, and we didn’t grow up in the league. So, there’s a lot of things you have to do to crack your way in.