Career
He was a 6"7" (203 cm), 195 lb (89 kg) shooting guard and from 1982 to 1986 played college basketball for the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he scored 1,236 points. He was selected by the Houston Rockets with the 19th pick of the fourth round in the 1986 National Basketball Association Draft. Throughout his short National Basketball Association career from 1986-1988 he played with the Rockets, Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Buckinghamshire and Sacramento Kings.
Henry also played for the Rapid City Thrillers and the Yakima Sun Kings of the College of Business Administration. Then in 1992 he played in the first College of Business Administration All-Star Game held in the Pacific Northwest, of which he was named Most Valuable Player once again after hitting four-of-seven three-pointers, the most made in such an event since 1970.
After his National Basketball Association career he spent 10 years playing professionally in Italy, Spain, France and Greece before returning to Montana, United States. After retiring, he became an assistant coach with Division III"s Claremont McKenna College (where his father worked as a college professor) in his hometown of Claremont, California. He also served as associate director of the career services center, assisting students to gain employment.
He remained there for five years until 2006 when he was hired as an assistant coach to the Australian NBL"s Perth Wildcats under head coach and former college teammate Scott Fisher. After Fisher left the Wildcats, Henry became coach for the 2008/09 season.
In 2010 Conner joined the reformed Sydney Kings (Australian NBL) as an assistant coach with Ian Robilliard.
He later became an assistant for the Los Angeles Doctorate-Fenders of the National Basketball Association Development League. In October 2013, he was named the head coach of the National Basketball Association Doctorate-League"s Fort Wayne Mad Ants for the 2013-2014 season. On June 10, 2015, he stepped down as the Mad Ants" head coach and was named the Los Angeles Doctorate-Fenders head coach.
However, he gave up the position to become, on June 26, assistant coach of the Orlando Magic.