Larry Riley, who has 19 years of experience in the NBA, begins his second season as an assistant coach with the Golden State Warriors in 2007-08.
Riley, 61, arrives at Golden State after spending the last six seasons (2000-01 through 2005-06) with the Dallas Mavericks, where he served the last four campaigns as an assistant coach and NBA advance scout.
Prior to joining the Mavericks, Riley served a six-year stint (1994-95 through 1999-00) as the director of player personnel for the Vancouver Grizzlies. In that role, he oversaw the team’s scouting of professional, college and international players and advised the team on all player-related transactions. Riley also spent six years (1988-89 through 1993-94) with the Milwaukee Bucks organization as an assistant coach and scout. While with the Bucks he was responsible for advance scouting of NBA opponents, CBA, USBL and college scouting. Riley originally broke into the NBA when he was originally by the Bucks in 1988 as a scout and video coordinator.
Before entering the NBA, Riley was the head coach at Eastern New Mexico for ten years from 1978-88, where he developed the program into an NAIA powerhouse and helped the program transition up to NCAA Division II. Riley, who has 37 years of basketball coaching and administrative experience overall, was also the head coach at Chadron State in Nebraska for two seasons from 1976-78. Additionally, he served assistant coaching stints at Southeast Missouri State (1969-70), Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1970-73), Brevard Community College (1973-74) and Mercer (1974-76).
A 1966 graduate of Chadron State with an honors degree in education, Riley was inducted into the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 1993. He received a master’s degree in education from Southeast Missouri State in 1970.
Larry and wife, Renae, have two children, Ryan and Ashlee.
Larry Riley (June 20, 1952 - June 6, 1992) was a American actor, best known to screen viewers for his role as C.J. Memphis in the movie A Soldier's Story and as Frank Williams in the prime-time soap opera Knots Landing.
He died of AIDS in 1992. He had been forced to give up his role in Knots Landing because of his declining health due to the illness.
Co-founder of the Memphis Playhouse on the Square.
Was married twice. Was together with second wife Nina for six years before they married in December of 1991.
Was on "Knots Landing" for five seasons. Audiences were shocked when they saw his haggard appearance as cop-cum-attorney Frank Williams in February 1992 after the show had been on a five-month hiatus. Larry explained had he had lost 80 pounds (from 220) during that time due to kidney trouble which he attributed to "high blood pressure" and would be on dialysis for the remainder of his life. After his death only four months later, his widow Nina disclosed that Larry's renal failure was actually due to AIDS.
