Despite leading the Toronto Raptors to their most successful regular season in franchise history, Dwane Casey was fired after the team was swept out of the playoffs by the Cleveland Cavaliers. They are unusual circumstances, and now even more so as the NBA announced Casey as its Coach of the Year winner.

Already scooped up by the Detroit Pistons to be their head coach, Casey undoubtedly had a good year after a highly publicized “culture reset” shifted the Raptors’ focus away from midrange and isolation towards three-pointers and passing, but, after running into LeBron James and crumbling, the Raptors must have felt that they had no other option than to make a change.

Here’s how the basketball world reacted to this unlikely event.