Education
Duke Ellington School of the Arts.
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Duke Ellington School of the Arts.
His playing days included stints in the National Basketball Association (National Basketball Association) and Italy. From 1973-1976, Wright was one of the most decorated Grambling players. In 1974, he was named the Southwestern Athletic Conference Freshman of the year.
He was also a two-time All-SWAC selection for the remainder of his career, and a two-time first team National Collegiate Athletic Association Small College All-America.
He led the university to the 1976 SWAC Tournament Championship. After being named the SWAC Player-of-the-Year in 1975-1976 as a junior, he decided to declare for the 1976 National Basketball Association Draft.
Wright was selected with the 14th pick overall in the 1976 National Basketball Association Draft by the Washington Bullets. He played a significant part of the Bullets" successful team of the late 1970s, as a substitute.
After a disappointing season in which they were knocked out from the playoffs by the Philadelphia 76ers, he was traded to the Detroit Pistons, for whom he played only 46 games in two seasons.
He decided to move to Italy in 1982 and signed with Banco di Roma. Wright was an immediate star in Italy. The team finished the regular season in first place and reached the finals series against Olimpia Milano after defeating European champions Ford Cantù in the semi final series, with homecourt advantage in hand in the final.
Roma finished the Final group stage first placed tied with Barcelona, so the two teams qualified for the final game for the European champions cup in Geneva.
Wright was also selected as the European player of the year. Although he had a successful season, Wright left the team after failing to qualify to the Italian playoffs and signed with Fantoni Udine where he played for two seasons.
In 1987 he returned to Banco di Roma for one more season. Wright already was a player-coach in his last days in Italy.
He was appointed assistant coach at Grambling in 1990 and stayed for office for two seasons.
Afterwards he was a scout for the Seattle Sonics and the Washington Wizards, and an assistance coach at Quachita High School in his hometown of Monroe, Louisiana. In 1999 Wright was appointed head coach at Grambling. He was released from his duties in April 2008.
In May 1977.
They have three children: Larry Junior., Ashana, and Lance. Larry Junior is an NFL scout with the Houston Texans. He also has a daughter named Imani, a standout basketball player in her own right, who will graduate high school in 2013.
All three of Larry and Jacqueline"s children were scholarship athletes.
Larry Junior. signed at Notre Dame out of high school in 1994 and graduated from Louisiana Technical University (1995–1998), where he was a three-year letterman. Lance was a three-year starter at offensive center on the Grambling football team (2000–2004).
With the Bullets he won an National Basketball Association title in 1978 and reached the Finals the next year. Roma won the series 2 games to 1 and won its first ever Italian championship. The next season was even greater, as Roma participated in the European Champion Cup as Italian champions, and Wright provided one stellar performance after another. Wright was the Most Valuable Player of the 79-73 final win, scoring 27 points and leading Roma to its first ever European title in their first finals appearance. Ashana played basketball at Grambling State University (1995–1999), where she was a four-year letter winner on the Lady Tigers basketball team while winning four straight conference championships and never losing a home game in four years.
