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Former KU guard Walters nets job at Nevada: ‘Basketball has taken me a lot of places’

After spending the last two seasons working for the Detroit Pistons organization, Rex Walters has returned to college basketball.

The former Kansas guard, who has 10 years of college head coaching experience (eight at San Francisco, two at Florida Atlantic), has been hired as special assistant to the head coach at Nevada.

Nevada’s head coach is Eric Musselman, who led the Wolf Pack to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 a year ago and has a team expected to vie for a Mountain West Conference title and Final Four berth in 2018-19.

“Basketball has taken me a lot of places.