NBA.com: Rex Walters Bio

A 6-4 guard with a good shooting touch, Rex Walters has played both backcourt positions in his six seasons with the New Jersey Nets, Philadelphia 76ers and Miami Heat, both as a starter and coming off the bench.. A native of Omaha, Nebraska, Walters spent two years at Northwestern before transferring to Kansas. In two years with the Jayhawks he averaged 15.6 points and left the college ranks with a four-year field-goal percentage of .500 and a career three-point field-goal percentage of .426. The Nets, in search of a replacement for the late Drazen Petrovic, selected Walters with the 16th overall pick in the 1993 NBA Draft. As a rookie in 1993-94, Walters saw limited playing time but led the team in field-goal percentage (.522) and hit 14 of 28 three-point attempts. When injuries hit the Nets' backcourt in 1994-95, sidelining starter Kevin Edwards for most of the year, Walters' role expanded and his statistics improved in nearly every category. But he was back on the bench at the start of the 1995-96 season and played little until he was dealt to Philadelphia in the trade that also brought Derrick Coleman to the Sixers. He didn't play much in his first few months in Philadelphia, either, but came on strong in the final month of the season and started the team's last eight games of the 1995-96 campaign. Walters played in 59 games for Philadelphia in 1996-97, making 16 starts but primarily serving as the third guard behind Allen Iverson and Jerry Stackhouse. He led the team in three-point shooting with a .385 mark and averaged 6.8 ppg. He played in 38 games in 1997-98, splitting the season between Philadelphia and Miami, which signed him after he was waived by the Sixers on January 17, 1998. He appeared in 33 games for the Heat in 1998-99, making 13 starts, averaging 3.1 ppg.

1999-2000 REGULAR SEASON
Released by Miami on 2/23 Placed on the injured list on 2/20 with lower back spasms

1997-1998 REGULAR SEASON
Placed on the injured list on 4/22 due to patellar tendinitis in his right knee On the injured list from 4/6 to 4/17 due to bilateral tendinitis in both knees Signed for the remainder of the season by the Heat on 1/27 Waived by the 76ers on 1/18 Scored 11 points, in 13 minutes, against the Boston Celtics on 12/15

1996-1997 REGULAR SEASON
Walters played in 59 games in his second season with the Sixers, primarily behind guards Allen Iverson and Jerry Stackhouse although he did make 16 starts as the team experimented with moving Stackhouse to forward for a time. Walters averaged 6.8 points and 1.9 assists in 17.6 minutes per game, leading the team with a three-point shooting percentage of .385 on 57-for-148. He ranked third on the club in three-pointers made and attempted and fourth in assists. He scored in double figures 15 times and had one double-double, posting season-highs of 27 points and 11 assists in 48 minutes in a 127-125 overtime win at Boston on Jan. 22. He barely missed a triple-double in that game, as he grabbed a season-high nine rebounds. He sat out 12 games in April due to a sprained right ankle and was a DNP-CD 11 times.

1995-1996 REGULAR SEASON
Walters finished his season on a high note, getting a pair of double-doubles in his last two games--13 points and 10 assists against Orlando on April 19 and 23 points and 12 assists, both season highs, at Toronto on April 21. He started the last eight games of the season at point guard for Philadelphia, averaging 12.8 points and 7.3 assists in 38.3 minutes per game over that busy period. That contrasted sharply with the start of his season, when he logged a mere 87 minutes in 11 games for New Jersey before being dealt to Philadelphia on Nov. 30 in the Derrick Coleman-Shawn Bradley trade. He then had just 38 points and 27 assists in his first 22 games as a Sixer before getting more action in the final month of the season. For the year Walters averaged 4.2 points and 2.4 assists per game in 45 outings. As a Net his averages were 3.0 ppg and 1.0 apg; as a Sixer they were 4.6 ppg and 2.9 apg.

1994-1995 REGULAR SEASON
Walters was one of three New Jersey Nets players to appear in 80 games or more in 1994-95. With Kevin Edwards lost for most of the season because of a damaged Achilles tendon, Walters got the nod to start in 30 games. Like most of the rest of the club (which finished last in the league in field-goal percentage), he struggled with his shooting touch, posting a .439 percentage from the field, down from .522 in his rookie season. However, he did lead the club with a .362 three-point field-goal percentage. He was also third on the team in three-pointers attempted (196) and three-pointers made (71). Walters averaged 6.5 points in 17.9 minutes per game for the Nets, who finished at 30-52 and missed the playoffs. He also chipped in 1.5 assists and 1.2 rebounds per game. On April 8 he scored a career-high 20 points in the Nets' 103-93 win over the Miami Heat.

1993-1994 REGULAR SEASON
As a senior at the University Kansas in 1992-93, Rex Walters earned his second straight All-Big Eight Conference selection. Teaming with Adonis Jordan to form one of the nation's best collegiate backcourts, he scored 15.3 points per game as a senior. The 6-foot-4 shooting guard, who had transferred to Kansas after two seasons at Northwestern, also shot .430 from three-point range during his senior campaign The June 7 death of Drazen Petrovic, who was killed in an automobile accident in Germany, left the Nets searching for a replacement at the shooting guard position. In an attempt to fill the void, New Jersey signed free agent Kevin Edwards and selected Walters with the 16th overall pick in the 1994 NBA Draft. Walters saw limited action in his rookie season. He came off the bench in only 48 games and averaged 3.4 points in 8.0 minutes per contest. But he also proved that his college shooting numbers were no fluke. Walters shot .522 from the floor and .500 (14-of-28) from three-point range.