Toronto Raptors head coach Dwane Casey has earned the NBA’s Eastern Conference Coach of the Month honours for December after his team posted a 10-4 record in the final month of 2016.
Over those 14 games, the Raptors held the second-best record in the East and boasted the most efficient offence in league history. Toronto averaged an East-leading 112.1 points per game and a wildly impressive +11.1 point differential. In holding opponents to 101.1 points per game during that stretch, the team also registered the second-best defense in the conference.
The fourth time he’s been named Coach of the Month in his career, Casey is currently the longest-serving— and winningest— head coach in Raptors history and signed a three-year contract extension with the club after a successful playoff run in 2016, helping to lead the Raptors to their first-ever Conference Finals.
The Raptors are next in action on Thursday night as the Utah Jazz visit the Air Canada Centre at 7:30 PM ET live on SportsnetOne.
