Walker named head coach at DII school

Former Arkansas basketball star Darrell Walker has been named the head coach at Clark Atlanta University, a Division II program in Atlanta. (photo courtesy Clark Atlanta athletics)

Darrell Walker was named the head coach of the men's basketball team at Clark Atlanta University, a Division II program in Atlanta, on Tuesday.

It will be the first college coaching job for the former Arkansas basketball star, but he has been a head coach in the NBA and WNBA.

Walker coached the Toronto Raptors for a season and a half from 1996-1998 and the Washington Wizards in an interim role the second half of the 1999-2000 season, compiling a 56-113 record.

After serving as the Wizards' interim coach, he filled the same position later in the year with the WNBA's Washington Mystics, going 14-18.

He was most recently an assistant coach for the New York Knicks from 2011-2014. He also had stints as an assistant with the Detroit Pistons and New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets.

His coaching career began after a 10-year run in the NBA, in which he played for five teams. Walker was named to the NBA's All-Rookie First Team with the Knicks in 1984 and won an NBA Championship with the Chicago Bulls in 1993, his final season.

In three seasons with the Razorbacks, Walker averaged 14.7 points, 5.1 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 2.6 steals per game. He earned all-SWC and second-team all-American honors as a senior in 1983.