The former Seton Hall and Utah Jazz basketball player LUTHER WRIGHT has returned home after being institutionalized for a month as a psychiatric patient. Wright was released Tuesday from the Essex County Hospital Center in Cedar Grove, N.J., where he was being treated for manic depression.

The decision was made after Wright spent weekends with his family at their home in Irvington, N.J., and faithfully took medication, said his agent, SAL DiFAZIO.

The 7-foot-2-inch Wright, 24, starred at Elizabeth High School and left Seton Hall after his sophomore year. He was chosen in the first round of the 1993 National Basketball Association draft by Utah, but nine months later he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and cut from the team.

Wright has been committed to mental hospitals at least three times since he turned professional. DiFazio said that under the terms of his contract settlement with the Jazz, Wright will be paid $153,000 a year for 25 years. (AP)