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.
Read more about this topic: Richie Powers
Famous quotes containing the word life:
“Not lived; for life doth her great actions spell,
By what was done and wrought
In season, and so brought
To light: her measures are, how well
Each syllab’e answered, and was formed how fair;
These make the lines of life, and that’s her air.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)