The Nevada basketball staff continues to grow to record heights.

After adding former Nevada point guard Todd Okeson to the staff earlier this week, the Wolf Pack added Rex Walters, a two-time college head coach who was most recently employed by the Detroit Pistons, on Thursday as a special assistant to head coach Eric Musselman. He is the 17th member of Nevada’s staff.

"When we started the search for this position, we set a few parameters that were important to our program,” Musselman said in a news release. "First and foremost, we wanted to find someone who had prior head coaching experience. This trait has been something that has served our program both on and off the court very well.

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"We also wanted to find someone that had NBA playing and possibly coaching experience, and with Rex, we were able to accomplish both. Since the moment he stepped on campus, he has hit the ground running. We are extremely excited to add Rex's basketball knowledge and acumen to our staff. He is a tremendous asset to our staff and program as a whole."

Walters played his prep ball in San Jose before stints at Northwestern and Kansas, where he helped the Jayhawks to the 1993 Final Four. Walters was the No. 16 pick of the 1993 draft and played seven NBA seasons and 10 pro seasons overall. After retiring from playing in 2003, Walters began his coaching career at the college level.

He was an assistant at Valparaiso (2003-05) and Florida Atlantic (2005-06) before becoming FAU’s head coach, posting a 31-33 record in two seasons. He was then hired as the head coach at the University of San Francisco, where he went 126-125 overall and 63-65 in conference from 2008-16 despite continuous attrition in the program. Walters was named the West Coast Conference’s coach of the year in 2014 after leading his team to a 21-12 record and NIT berth.

After being fired by USF, the 48-year-old jumped to the pro ranks where he was the head coach of the Grand Rapids Drive – the Detroit Pistons' G League affiliate – in 2016-17 when the team went 26-24. Walters was promoted to Stan Van Gundy’s Pistons' staff last season but wasn’t retained this year after Van Gundy was fired.

Walters, who was under contract with the Pistons this season, was praised for his player development by Van Gundy.

“Rex brings great basketball knowledge and experience and does a great job of developing young players,” Van Gundy said in a news release when hiring Walters. “We were very happy with the way he worked with our young Pistons players last season when they were on assignment in Grand Rapids.

Walters and his wife, Deanna have five children, Addison, Drew, Riley, Gunner and Ace.

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