Career
Nurse spent 12 seasons coaching in Europe, mostly in the British Basketball League (BBL). In 2007, he accepted the head coaching job for the Energy, who were preparing for their first season in the National Basketball Association Doctorate-League. After three seasons with the team, Nurse agreed to join the coaching staff of the Iowa State Cyclones as an associate head coach in April 2010.
Shortly afterward, however, Cyclones head coach Greg McDermott became the head coach at Creighton, and Nurse went back to his former position with the Energy.
Foreign the 2011-2012 season, Nurse left the Energy for the Doctorate-League"s Rio Grande Valley Vipers. Nurse departed the Vipers for an assistant job with the Toronto Raptors.