William Michael Curley
(born May 29, 1972) is an American
basketball
coach and former professional player who is the head coach of the
Emerson Lions men's basketball team
.
Curley has two brothers and one sister, with both brothers, Matty and Mickey, having played professional basketball overseas.
High school/college career
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A 6'9"
power forward
with a reputation for being a solid outside shooter in spite of his size, Curley led his Duxbury High School Green Dragons basketball team to a
Massachusetts
State Championship in 1989. He was selected as a
McDonald's All-American
in 1990, and was one of the most highly recruited, sought after by
Notre Dame
,
Duke
,
Villanova
,
North Carolina
and the
University of Connecticut
.
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He accepted a scholarship offer from the
Boston College
Eagles. There, Curley led a renaissance of the school's basketball program. He was the
Big East Conference
Rookie of the Year in 1991, and was twice selected as a first team All-Big East player.
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A four-time team MVP, Curley was the team leader on the 1994 squad which advanced to the
Elite Eight
of the
NCAA basketball tournament
. In 1994, he received the BC "Eagle of the Year" award as the school's top athlete (subsequently inducted into the Boston College Hall of Fame on November 12, 2006). His college coach,
Jim O'Brien
called him "...one of the best players ever at Boston College."
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NBA career
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Selected by the
San Antonio Spurs
in the first round (22nd overall) of the
1994 NBA draft
, Curley played in five
NBA
seasons, for five different teams: the
Detroit Pistons
,
Minnesota Timberwolves
,
Houston Rockets
,
Golden State Warriors
and
Dallas Mavericks
. His professional career was blighted with injuries, and he missed the entire schedule from 1995?97, playing a maximum of 53
regular season
contests, in his
rookie year
.
Upon retiring, with averages of 2.7 points in two
rebounds
, in only 147 games, Curley settled with his wife and three children in his hometown of
Duxbury, Massachusetts
, running summer basketball camps.
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Coaching career
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In 2011, he became an assistant at Emerson College in Boston under his Boston College coach
Jim O'Brien
. Upon O'Brien's retirement in 2014, Curley was named interim head coach of the Lions. In 2019, he led Emerson to its first NEWMAC championship and its first NCAA tournament appearance.
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