 On April 15, 2016, the Brooklyn Nets hired him to be the first head coach for the Long Island Nets.Nored grew up in Birmingham, Alabama where his father, Ron Nored Sr, was pastor of Bethel AME Church in Ensley and a co-founder and executive director of Bethel-Ensley Action Task (BEAT).Nored, Sr died from pancreatic cancer in 2003.