Toronto Raptors head coach Nick Nurse has been named the NBA Coach of the Year.

Nurse, who has the Raptors on the verge of the second round of the playoffs, was a runaway winner, receiving 90 first-place votes from a panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters. He finished with 470 points.

Milwaukee coach Mike Budenholzer was second after leading the Bucks to the best record in the suspended season, earning 147 points. Oklahoma City’s Billy Donovan (134) was third.

The award was announced on TNT’s pre-game show before the Bucks faced the Orlando Magic at the NBA’s campus at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Fla. Raptors guard Kyle Lowry presented Nurse with the Red Auerbach Trophy while the coach was interviewed by the show’s panel.

Nurse is in his second season as Raptors head coach. The club went 53-19 in the pandemic-shortened 2019-20 regular season and posted a franchise-best .736 winning percentage.

Toronto won its first NBA title last season in Nurse’s first year as an NBA head coach, with superstar Kawhi Leonard leading the way. Leonard left for the Los Angeles Clippers in free agency shortly after Toronto’s title run, but under Nurse the Raptors haven’t missed a beat without him.

The Raptors went 7-1 in the seeding games when the NBA resumed play following a months-long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They will look for their first ever playoff sweep on Sunday, when they take a 3-0 lead into their series with the Brooklyn Nets.