# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/larry-wright
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:50:43.208Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/larry-wright"
name: "Larry Wright"
slug: "larry-wright"
description: "Larry Glenn Wright is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played college basketball for the Grambling State Tigers and was the Southwestern Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year in 1976. Wright played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Washington Bullets and the Detroit Pistons. He also played for six seasons in Italy. After his playing retirement, Wright joined the Tigers as an assistant coach from 1990 to 1992 and returned as the head coach from 1999 to 2008."
tagline: "American basketball player"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1954-11-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.097590666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Larry_Wright"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA_(%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A9)"
    title: "لاري رايت (كرة سلة)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA_(%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8_%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%87)"
    title: "لارى رايت (لاعب كرة السله)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wright_(basketball)"
    title: "Larry Wright (basketball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wright"
    title: "Larry Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wright_(basket-ball)"
    title: "Larry Wright (basket-ball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wright"
    title: "Larry Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wright"
    title: "Larry Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8_(%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82)"
    title: "Райт, Ларри (баскетболист)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1093489"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump