Dwane Casey could be picking up his NBA Coach of the Year award from the ranks of the unemployed.
The Toronto Raptors have fired Casey as their head coach, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported Friday, citing a league source.
Casey guided the Raptors to their best record in franchise history this season, a 59-win campaign that earned them the No. 1 seed in the NBA’s Eastern Conference. But Toronto’s season ended abruptly, as LeBron James’ Cleveland Cavaliers swept the Raptors out of the second round of the playoffs.
Regular season success and playoff failure was a theme of Casey’s five-season tenure in Toronto. He won 48 games or more …