Nick Nurse is an American basketball

Basketball

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 coach

Coach (basketball)

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 who is the head coach for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers

Rio Grande Valley Vipers

The Rio Grande Valley Vipers are a 2007-08 expansion team in the NBA Development League. They play their home games at the State Farm Arena, in Hidalgo, Texas....

 of the NBA Development League

NBA Development League

The NBA Development League, or NBA D-League, is the National Basketball Association's official minor league basketball organization. Known until summer 2005 as the National Basketball Development League , the NBA D-League started with eight teams in the fall of 2001...

 (NBADL).

Nurse spent 12 seasons coaching in Europe, mostly in the British Basketball League

British Basketball League

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 (BBL). He won the BBL Coach of the Year Award

BBL Coach of the Year Award

The British Basketball League Coach of the Year is an annual British Basketball League award given since the 1987-1988 season. The award is decided by a panel consisting of each of the league’s head coaches who submit one vote each at the end of the regular season, and the coach with the most...

 in 1999–00

1999–2000 British Basketball League season

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 and 2003–04. In 2007, he accepted the head coaching job for the Energy, who were preparing for their first season in the NBA D-League. The Energy won division titles under Nurse in the 2008–09 and 2009–10 seasons. After three seasons with the team, Nurse agreed to join the coaching staff of the Iowa State Cyclones

Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball

The Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team represents Iowa State University and competes in the Big 12 Conference of NCAA Division I.-Johnny Orr era :...

 as an associate head coach in April 2010. Shortly afterward, however, Cyclones head coach Greg McDermott

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 became the head coach at Creighton

Creighton Bluejays men's basketball

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, and Nurse went back to his former position with the Energy. In the 2010-11 NBA D-League season, Nurse received the Dennis Johnson Coach of the Year award after helping Iowa achieve the best record in the league (37-13). On September 29, 2011, the D-League's Rio Grande Valley Vipers

Rio Grande Valley Vipers

The Rio Grande Valley Vipers are a 2007-08 expansion team in the NBA Development League. They play their home games at the State Farm Arena, in Hidalgo, Texas....

 announced that Nurse would be taking the position as the team's head coach for the 2011-12 season.

External links

• http://www.britball.com/profiles/nick_nurse.htm