PHILADELPHIA --- Former UNI men's basketball guard Nick Nurse was announced as the head coach of the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers on Thursday afternoon. He inherits a Philadelphia team that won 54 regular season games this past campaign as all-star forward/center Joel Embid won league MVP honors.
The 2019-20 NBA Coach of the Year, Nurse owns a wealth of coaching experience in the NBA, the NBA G-League and multiple professional leagues in Europe. In five seasons as an NBA head coach with Toronto, Nurse compiled a record of 227-163, giving him a .582 winning percentage, the best of any coach in that franchise's history.