ATLANTA – Former UTSA men’s basketball star Keaton Wallace will become the second former UTSA player in the National Basketball Association playoffs, beginning this weekend as a member of the Atlanta Hawks lineup as they open the Eastern Conference First Round this weekend against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden. The Hawks and Knicks tip off at 5 p.m. CT on Saturday, April 18, with game 1 streaming on Prime Video.
Wallace looks to join UTSA and San Antonio Sports Hall-of-Famer Devin Brown as Roadrunners who have appeared in the NBA Playoffs. Brown reached the playoffs with the San Antonio Spurs in 2004 and 2005, including six games of the Spurs’ NBA Finals win over the Detroit Pistons in 2005. Brown also appeared in the playoffs for Cleveland (2008), New Orleans (2009) and Chicago (2010), totaling 33 career playoff games across the four franchises. The pair is joined by Derrick Gervin as UTSA alumni who have played in the NBA.
After going undrafted in 2021, Wallace was selected with the ninth pick of that year’s NBA G-League draft by the Wisconsin Herd and traded to the Los Angeles Clippers. Signing his first two-way contract with the Ontario Clippers in 2021-22, he played two seasons in California before signing a new two-way deal with Atlanta and playing for the College Park Skyhawks. Proving a versatile two-way player in 2023-24 during his first season with the franchise, Wallace earned the opportunity to join the parent NBA roster for part of the 2024-25 season – with his NBA debut coming on Oct. 27, 2024. The Hawks signed him to a new two-way contract in July 2025, but the franchise converted his contract to a standard deal on Oct. 18, 2025.
Throughout his four-year G-League career, Wallace appeared in 129 games with over 114 starts, averaging 16.1 points, 4.8 rebounds, 5.2 assists and 1.6 steals in 31.2 minutes per game, while shooting 45.7 percent from the field, 38.3 percent from three and 76.4 percent at the free throw line.
Wallace played 31 games with five starts for the Atlanta Hawks last season. Since beginning his standard contract this season with Atlanta, Wallace has appeared in 53 games with three starts. Across his two NBA seasons, he’s averaging 4.2 points, 2.1 assists and 1.3 rebounds in 12.3 minutes per game, shooting 39.9 percent from the field and 35.3 percent from the perimeter.
A native of Dallas, Texas, and product of Richardson High School, Wallace exited his four-year collegiate career at UTSA as the second all-time leading scorer in program history, netting 2,080 points in his career – as only the second-ever UTSA player to cross the 2,000-point threshold. He totaled the sixth-most points in Conference USA history and he was a four-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 points for the Roadrunners across his time in the blue and orange.
He still ranks among the UTSA all-time leaders in points at second, ranking seventh in scoring average (16.8), third in games played (125), fourth in starts (109), third in free-throw percentage (80.6), seventh in free-throws made (304), second in field goals (715), ninth in rebounds (554) and sixth in assists (355).
Combining in the UTSA backcourt with Jhivvan Jackson, the pair formed the second-highest scoring duo of any single recruiting class in NCAA history, behind only Duke's Johnny Dawkins and Mark Alarie in 1982-83.
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