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On January 4, 2017, he moved to the French club Hermine Nantes Basket, for the rest of the season. On October 19, 2017, he signed with the Lithuanian club BC Nevėžis. On November 28, 2017, he returned to Italy and signed a one-month deal with VL Pesaro, a team competing in the highest-tier level of the Italian league pyramid, the LBA. On December 20, 2017, he re-signed with Pesaro for one more month.

In the following season, Kuksiks returned to Latvia, where he played with VEF Rīga. In November 2014, he returned to playing on the basketball courts, after recovering from an injury, and he joined BK Jēkabpils. On January 16, 2015, he signed with Avtodor Saratov. On February 18, 2015, he left Avtodor.

He then signed with the Russian club BC Nizhny Novgorod, where he made his debut in Europe's premiere basketball league, the EuroLeague. Nizhny Novgorod finished its season in the VTB United League season, after being eliminated by CSKA Moscow, with a 3–0 sweep in the league's playoff semifinal series. On June 18, 2015, he parted ways with Nizhny.

On August 23, 2015, he signed with the Romanian team BCM U Pitești. On November 6, 2015, he left Pitești and signed with the Italian club Pallacanestro Varese, for the rest of the season. On September 24, 2016, he signed with the Latvian club BK Ventspils.

After graduating from Arizona State, Kuksiks returned to Europe, and signed a pro contract with Valencia Basket, one of the top teams in the Spanish ACB League, which is often regarded as the best national domestic league in Europe. In October 2012, he returned to the Liga ACB, and joined Lagun Aro GBC. In the middle of the season, Kuksiks moved to the Ukrainian club BC Budivelnyk, which he helped to win the Ukrainian Super League domestic championship.

At the EuroBasket 2011, he was also team's leading scorer, averaging 16 points a game. In the summer of 2012, he helped Latvia to qualify for the EuroBasket 2013, scoring 12.1 points per game.

In his senior season, Kuksiks averaged 10.4 points per game. He finished his college basketball career at Arizona State, with 280 career three-pointers made, and he became the 34th member of ASU's 1,000-points scored club, as he finished his college career with 1,175 points.

In 2010, he was the leading scorer of the senior Latvian national team, averaging 13.3 points, to go along with 3.4 rebounds per game, in eight games played. In his best game against Israel, on August 8, he made seven three-pointers, which is the all-time Latvian national team record in official games. The previous record was six three-pointers made in one game, held by three different players (Sandis Valters, Uvis Helmanis and Ainars Bagatskis).

Rihards Kuksiks (born July 17, 1988) is a Latvian professional basketball player for Lietkabelis Panevėžys. He is also a member of the senior Latvia national basketball team.