Wally Walker
Walker in 1978.
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| Personal information | |
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| Born |
July 18, 1954 Millersville, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) |
| Listed weight | 190 lb (86 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school |
Penn Manor (Millersville, Pennsylvania) |
| College | Virginia (1972–1976) |
| NBA draft | 1976 / Round: 1 / Pick: 5th overall |
| Selected by the Portland Trail Blazers | |
| Playing career | 1976–1985 |
| Position | Forward |
| Number | 42 |
| Career history | |
| 1976–1977 | Portland Trail Blazers |
| 1977–1982 | Seattle SuperSonics |
| 1982–1984 | Houston Rockets |
| 1984–1985 | Simac Milano |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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| Career NBA statistics | |
| Points | 3,968 (7.0 ppg) |
| Rebounds | 1,759 (3.1 rpg) |
| Assists | 844 (1.5 apg) |
| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
Walter Frederick "Wally" Walker (born July 18, 1954) is an American former professional basketball player. Walker is best known for his National Basketball Association career—both as a player and as a front office executive—for the Seattle SuperSonics.
A prolific frontcourt scorer while in college, Walker led the Virginia Cavaliers to their first Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championship and its first NCAA Tournament berth in 1976.
He was the first Cavalier to receive the Everett Case Award as the ACC Tournament's Most Valuable Player following Virginia's championship run, until Joe Harris in 2014. Enjoying one of the finest individual seasons ever by a Cavalier player during the 1975-76 season, Walker scored 21 points and grabbed seven rebounds in the 1976 tournament championship game against the University of North Carolina.
Walker's scoring average of 22.1 points during the 1975-76 season ranks as the sixth best in Virginia history and his 1,849 career points is sixth on the all-time Cavalier list. He was a first-team Academic All American in 1976. His number 41 was retired by the school. The Portland Trail Blazers took him in the first round of the 1976 draft, the fifth overall pick.
His playing career averages were 7.0 points and 3.1 rebounds during eight years with Portland, Seattle and Houston. He won two championship rings (with Portland and Seattle) in his first and third seasons. He was a starter for the Sonics in 1981-82 and the next season for the Houston Rockets. After ending his NBA career in 1984, Walker played 11 matches in Italian Pro League in Milan and then enrolled in Stanford Graduate School of Business, graduating in 1987 with an MBA. He worked for seven years at Goldman Sachs and also started his own money management business, Walker Capital, before returning to the NBA in the early 90s as a part-time television announcer and consultant for his former team, the Seattle SuperSonics, owned by Barry Ackerley.
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