Dejounte Murray Rumors

Pelicans: Dejounte Murray (illness) is AVAILABLE for tonight's game vs. Clippers

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Law Murray: Pelicans reportedly that Bryce McGowens (toe fracture) is out for tomorrow vs Clippers. Dejounte Murray (illness) is questionable Zion Williamson will play after missing March 1 at LA

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Josh Lewenberg: Darko on the Murray/Shead incident-"After watching the film I thought we did not handle that situation the way we want, the way we were supposed to. Our players had conversations with each other. They know that's not the true image of our team... It's never going to happen again"

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Dejounte Murray: I Found My MF JOY 🤩 Again. 🙏🏽😤😈 And We Stepping On Any And Everything In The Way!!! 💯 #LikeThat🤯 #DM5🖤 They Not Suppose To Like You On The Wood!!!! 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Law Murray: Trey Murphy III (shoulder) hasn't played since the All-Star break That changes TONIGHT as Murphy is available tonight at LA Dejounte Murray will also be available, as expected Zion Williamson (ankle) is questionable and has played in every Pelicans game since December 14.

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Dejounte Murray: LETS CLEAR THE AIR CAUSE FUCK A SOURCE… Me Or My Agent Never Requested A Trade Out Of NEW ORLEANS!!!! Joe And The Whole Organization Know I Was Locked In To Come Back Better Than Ever To Help Make This Play In Push And Whatever Comes After That!! 😂😅 It’s Bouts To Get Fun!! 🍿

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Dejounte Murray converted a slashing layup fewer than 20 seconds into his first game in nearly 13 months. He capped off his 13-point performance with another driving layup off the glass to give the New Orleans Pelicans a five-point lead with 1:04 to go in a 113-109 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night. "I've been through a lot," Murray said. "I keep my chest out, chin up, smiling. And I'm just ready to see where it goes from here."

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Dejounte Murray felt heavy. And each passing day felt heavier than the last. “A dark cloud” hovered above him, he says. Refusing to dissipate, the cloud enveloped his thoughts, his emotions. “Everything,” Murray says, “was just dark.” It was June 2024. The Atlanta Hawks had just traded him to New Orleans. There had been so much excitement in the air; hope for him to help turn around the Pelicans franchise by creating a formidable trio alongside Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram. Everything had been going well even before his change of scenery. Almost too well, he now surmises, looking back on this moment. Murray had been averaging a career high in points in Atlanta after receiving a hard-earned All-Star nod with San Antonio in 2022. From the outside, it seemed as if a new opportunity next to other young stars could lead him back to All-Star status in New Orleans.

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But each time he left the Pelicans’ practice facility, finally alone with his thoughts, his reality, he felt a crushing pain. “A lot of people don’t know,” Murray says, “a lot of stuff in life went downhill.” First, his mother had a stroke, a week before his first game of the 2024-25 season. He flew to see her in Seattle, where he grew up. She could barely speak, helpless in the hospital. Then he broke his left hand in the first game, causing him to undergo surgery and miss 17 games. Then his cousin was killed. Then his uncle suffered an overdose. And then, in January 2025, he suffered a season-ending ruptured right Achilles tendon. “Enough was enough,” Murray says.

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Murray isn’t bitter about what has happened to him. Far from it. “It’s all something I look back and smile about,” he says. He isn’t being hyperbolic; Murray tried to show up to rehab each day with a smile — with the mindset of finding joy anywhere he could. “It’s a beautiful struggle,” he says. A struggle that caused him to continue to look inward. As he recounts his journey back to basketball, he finds himself unintentionally traveling back in time, talking about his past. Before the NBA, before anyone knew his name. The more he reveals, the more time begins to blur. One minute, he’s speaking about his Achilles injury in New Orleans; the next, his mind shifts back to Seattle. To his childhood, teenage years. To the parts that he tries not to think about.

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Murray is nearing an age at which one often contemplates life through new lenses. It causes one to think about where one has been, where one wants to go; what one has been through. “I am healing,” Murray says. Not just physically — from his injury — but from everything he had endured in the months leading up to the rupture. And everything before that. It is a lot to untangle. A perpetual processing. “You can’t put a timetable on these things,” he says. “I don’t know when I’m just going to be, ‘Oh, OK! I’m healed now!’ … I bottled up so much. “I was never even able to really live a regular life. And people won’t never understand that, you know what I’m saying? Since I was 7, 8 years old, there was nothing regular about the things I was involved in, around or nothing. … So, I’m still trying to even find myself.”

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New Orleans Pelicans: Tuesday night: @DejounteMurray returns

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Pelicans Film Room: "I'm not one of those guys like I'm paid, I could get an extra 6-7 months, or our team is 14th in the West. There are a lot of excuses for a chump to say 'I'm not playing'. I am the opposite of that... I want to represent of New Orleans" -- Dejounte Murray on New Orleans

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Rod Walker: Dejounte Murray: "This city is passionate. They are loving and caring. They’ll get behind you if you show them the same. I want to go represent for New Orleans. I want to give the fans something to be able to come to the game and have fun so when they go home they can say ‘that's my team’ and that’s New Orleans."

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