Nevada hires Rex Walters, former college head coach and NBA assistant

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.

"We…