Raptors 905 coach Jerry Stackhouse, right, shares a laugh with Brady Heslip, lower left, during their D-League game against the Oklahoma City Blue in Mississauga in December. He’s in his first year as the head coach of the Toronto Raptors D-League team based in Mississauga and the same fire he showed throughout his 19-year NBA career is glaringly apparent. He looks tough, he acts tough, he can get a point across with a scowl as much as an outburst. Stackhouse, who took over the D-League team after a season as an assistant to Raptors head coach Dwane Casey, was named Tuesday as the head coach of the Eastern Conference team that will play in the D-League all-star game that’s part of the NBA’s celebratory weekend in New Orleans Feb. 17-19. “The way he played and just the long, successful career he had as a player translates into him being a coach now.

Source: thestar January 31, 2017 21:22 UTC