UTSA alum Keaton Wallace headed to NBA Playoffs – UTSA Athletics

ATLANTA – Former UTSA males’s basketball star Keaton Wallace will develop into the second former UTSA participant within the National Basketball Association playoffs, starting this weekend as a member of the Atlanta Hawks lineup as they open the Eastern Conference First Round this weekend in opposition to the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden. The Hawks and Knicks tip off at 5 pm CT on Saturday, April 18, with sport 1 streaming on Prime Video.

Wallace seems to be to be a part of UTSA and San Antonio Sports Hall-of-Famer Devin Brown as Roadrunners who’ve appeared within the NBA Playoffs. Brown reached the playoffs with the San Antonio Spurs in 2004 and 2005, together with six video games of the Spurs’ NBA Finals win over the Detroit Pistons in 2005. Brown additionally appeared within the playoffs for Cleveland (2008), New Orleans (2009) and Chicago (2010), totaling 33 profession playoff video games throughout the 4 franchises. The pair is joined by Derrick Gervin as UTSA alumni who’ve performed within the NBA.

After going undrafted in 2021, Wallace was chosen with the ninth decide of that 12 months’s NBA G-League draft by the Wisconsin Herd and traded to the Los Angeles Clippers. Signing his first two-means contract with the Ontario Clippers in 2021-22, he performed two seasons in California earlier than signing a brand new two-means take care of Atlanta and enjoying for the College Park Skyhawks. Proving a flexible two-means participant in 2023-24 throughout his first season with the franchise, Wallace earned the chance to be a part of the guardian NBA roster for a part of the 2024-25 season – together with his NBA debut approaching Oct. 27, 2024. The Hawks signed him to a brand new two-means contract in July 2025, however the franchise transformed his contract to a normal deal on Oct. 18, 2025.

Throughout his 4-12 months G-League profession, Wallace appeared in 129 video games with over 114 begins, averaging 16.1 factors, 4.8 rebounds, 5.2 assists and 1.6 steals in 31.2 minutes per sport, whereas taking pictures 45.7 p.c from the sector, 38.3 p.c from three and 76.4 p.c on the free throw line.

Wallace performed 31 video games with 5 begins for the Atlanta Hawks final season. Since starting his customary contract this season with Atlanta, Wallace has appeared in 53 video games with three begins. Across his two NBA seasons, he is averaging 4.2 factors, 2.1 assists and 1.3 rebounds in 12.3 minutes per sport, taking pictures 39.9 p.c from the sector and 35.3 p.c from the perimeter.

A local of Dallas, Texas, and product of Richardson High School, Wallace exited his 4-12 months collegiate profession at UTSA because the second all-time main scorer in program historical past, netting 2,080 factors in his profession – as solely the second-ever UTSA participant to cross the two,000-level threshold. He totaled the sixth-most factors in Conference USA historical past and he was a 4-time All-Conference USA honoree. In 2018-19, he was named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches All-District First Team and earned All-District Second Team hoors in 2019-20. Wallace averaged 16.6 factors for the Roadrunners throughout his time within the blue and orange.

He nonetheless ranks among the many UTSA all-time leaders in factors at second, rating seventh in scoring common (16.8), third in video games performed (125), fourth in begins (109), third in free-throw share (80.6), seventh in free-throws made (304), second in area targets (715), ninth in rebounds (554) and sixth in assists (355).

Combining within the UTSA backcourt with Jhivvan Jacksonthe pair fashioned the second-highest scoring duo of any single recruiting class in NCAA historical past, behind solely Duke’s Johnny Dawkins and Mark Alarie in 1982-83.

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