Later Life
After leaving the NBA, he became sportscaster on WABC-TV in New York, New York. After his contract expired, he became Director of Operations for the U.S. Basketball League in 1985. He left this position, presumably after the NBA signed most of the newly formed minor league's talent. After selling cable television subscriptions and cars, he returned to his former position with the USBL in 1990. Richie Powers was a longtime member of Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York. He later died of a stroke in 1998 in Allentown, Pennsylvania at the age of 67.
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