Purves won the ASEAN Basketball League title in the 2012 season with Indonesia Warriors.
He worked in Asian leagues, including the Indonesia Warriors[1][2] for the ABL in 2011, and won a championship for the team.
He served as active team consultant replacing Rajko Toroman for Petron Blaze Boosters from 2013.
[4] He returned to Indonesia in 2017 and served for the Satria Muda Pertamina Jakarta of the Indonesian Basketball League and won a championship for the team, but left after 2018.
[5] In 2024, he again returned to Indonesia to become the head coach of Pacific Caesar Surabaya of the IBL.