He played college basketball for Austin Peay State University and later professionally, including for the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA and Dafni in the Greek Basket League.

Wells played collegiately for Austin Peay State University and was named 1997 Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year.

[5] This strategy of intentionally fouling a bad free throw shooter is sometimes called Hack-a-Shaq, since it was later famously used against Shaquille O'Neal.

[7] He later played for the LaCrosse Bobcats of the CBA, the Oklahoma Storm of USBL, the Memphis Houn'Dawgs of the ABA, Dafni in the Greek Basket League and Barangay Ginebra Kings the Philippine Basketball Association.

[8] In August 2007, Wells married Tracee Jones, the former head women's basketball coach at Tennessee State University.