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Jay Triano looks on during the Canadian men's national basketball team training camp in 2015.Mark Blinch/The Globe and Mail

Canadian men's national team head coach Jay Triano is back in charge of an NBA team, at least for now.

The Phoenix Suns fired head coach Earl Watson on Sunday night after hours of meetings at the team's headquarters and replaced him with Triano on an interim basis.

Triano, from Tillsonburg, Ont., had been serving as an associate coach with Watson.

The 59-year-old Triano was head coach of the Toronto Raptors from 2008-2011, compiling an 87-142 record while becoming the first Canadian-born head coach in NBA history.

Triano joined the Suns' staff as associate head coach in the summer of 2016 after being an assistant with the Portland Trail Blazers.

Phoenix is 0-3 to start the season.

With files from The Associated Press

The Toronto Raptors shared wishes for a full recovery to the Boston Celtics’ Gordon Hayward, after he sustained a broken ankle in a game on Tuesday night. Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan says “it sucks” when any player gets badly hurt.

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