Tracy Murray
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Born | Bakersfield Jam (assistant) | July 25, 1971||||||||||||||
2011 | Tulsa Shock (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
2015 | Los Angeles Lakers (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
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Points | 5,943 (9.0 ppg) | ||||||||||||||
Rebounds | 1,649 (2.5 rpg) | ||||||||||||||
Assists | 508 (0.8 apg) | ||||||||||||||
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Tracy Lamont Murray (born July 25, 1971) is an American former professional
High school and college career
Murray played competitively at Glendora High School[2] in California. As a senior, he led the nation with his 44.3 scoring average. Murray scored 3,053 points in high school, the highest total ever in the state at that time in 3 years. Murray missed his Freshman year due to injury. Murray played on the 1989 McDonald's All-American Boys Game for the West roster.
Murray played
Murray was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame as a member of the 2021 class.
Professional career
Spurs, Bucks and Blazers
Murray was selected by the San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the 1992 NBA draft with the 18th overall selection.[2] Just seven days after being drafted, on July 1, 1992, Murray was dealt twice in the same day. He was first traded to the Milwaukee Bucks for guard/forward Dale Ellis and then dealt by the Bucks to the Portland Trail Blazers for forward Alaa Abdelnaby. During the 93-94 season, he led the NBA in three point average at 45.9%. Murray spent two-and-a-half seasons with Portland before being dealt to the Houston Rockets on February 14, 1995, with guard Clyde Drexler in exchange for forward Otis Thorpe, the rights to Argentinian forward Marcelo Nicola and a 1995 first-round draft choice.
Rockets and Raptors
Tracy Murray played in just 25 games for the Rockets where he averaged 3.5 PPG and combined with his 5.9 PPG average in the 29 games he played as a Trail Blazer before the deal finished the campaign with a total PPG average of 4.8. On November 1, 1995, he signed a contract with the expansion Toronto Raptors and played the best NBA season of his career averaging 16.2 PPG, 1.6 APG and 4.3 RPG. Murray then decided to sign a contract with the Washington Bullets (now Washington Wizards) on July 15, 1996.
Washington Wizards
He spent four seasons with the Washington Wizards and in his first season with the Bullets, qualified for the post-season. It was only the second time in his career that he had been able to participate in the playoffs, with the first time being the 1993-94 season. Tracy saw action in three playoff games where he posted numbers of 18.3 PPG, 0.7 APG and 3.0 RPG. Those numbers were far better than the ones he had when he played in his first playoff series in 1993–94 with Portland where in 2 games played he averaged 3.0 PPG, 0.5 APG, and 1.5 RPG. He most notably scored 50 points against the Golden State Warriors[2] on February 10, 1998. Only seven other Washington players have scored 50 or more points in a game, including Michael Jordan, Bradley Beal, and Gilbert Arenas, who are the only players to have since accomplished the feat.
Nuggets, Raptors and Lakers
After his tenure with Washington concluded he joined the Denver Nuggets through a transaction which had him going from the Wizards to Denver for forward Popeye Jones and a future second-round draft choice on September 25, 2000. After appearing in 13 games with the Nuggets he was dealt on January 12, 2001, to the Raptors with center/forward Keon Clark and center Mamadou N'diaye for centers Kevin Willis, Aleksandar Radojević, Garth Joseph and a 2001 or 2002 second-round draft choice. Murray played in 38 games with the Raptors following the deal. That season the Raptors qualified for the NBA playoffs and Murray participated in 2 games for his team. He averaged 1.0 PPG and had 1 steal in 2.5 MPG.
In the next year Tracy played in 40 games for Toronto but after the season Murray was dealt again, this time to the Los Angeles Lakers along with the draft rights to guard Kareem Rush for guard Lindsey Hunter and the draft rights to forward Chris Jefferies on June 26, 2002.
Back with the Trail Blazers
After playing one season at the
In those 7 NBA contests Murray averaged in 5.0 MPG, 0.1 APG, 1.1 PPG and 0.7 RPG.
Then on October 4, 2004, he signed as a free agent with the New York Knicks, where he hoped he could continue playing in the National Basketball Association. However, on October 27, 2004, he was waived by New York and has not seen game action in the NBA since.
Panathinaikos Athens, P.A.O.K., Élan Chalon
In 2004, he signed with former European Champions
The year 2006–07 was his final season of professional basketball. "I have a (22-month-old) son of my own and it's time to concentrate on him and my family", said Murray. "For the last 14 years, I haven't been able to spend time with them. My parents spend the whole year preparing for one week ...Fourteen years is a long time; it was a good run. We all sat down and talked about it and decided this was the last year. It takes a lot out of me. None of us are getting any younger. It's time to do some family stuff."[3]
NBA career statistics
GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
† | Won an NBA championship | * | Led the league |
Regular season
Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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1992–93 | Portland | 48 | 14 | 10.3 | .415 | .300 | .875 | 1.7 | .2 | .2 | .1 | 5.7 |
1993–94 | Portland | 66 | 1 | 12.4 | .470 | .459* | .694 | 1.7 | .5 | .3 | .3 | 6.6 |
1994–95 | Portland | 29 | 3 | 10.8 | .412 | .390 | .824 | 1.3 | .5 | .2 | .0 | 5.9 |
1994–95† | Houston | 25 | 0 | 8.1 | .400 | .422 | .625 | .9 | .2 | .3 | .1 | 3.5 |
1995–96 | Toronto | 82 | 37 | 30.0 | .454 | .422 | .831 | 4.3 | 1.6 | 1.1 | .5 | 16.2 |
1996–97 | Washington | 82 | 1 | 22.2 | .425 | .353 | .839 | 3.1 | 1.0 | .8 | .2 | 10.0 |
1997–98 | Washington | 82* | 12 | 27.2 | .446 | .392 | .871 | 3.4 | 1.0 | .8 | .3 | 15.1 |
1998–99 | Washington | 36 | 0 | 18.1 | .350 | .320 | .810 | 2.3 | .8 | .6 | .2 | 6.5 |
1999–00 | Washington | 80 | 8 | 22.9 | .433 | .430 | .851 | 3.4 | .9 | .6 | .3 | 10.2 |
2000–01 | Denver | 13 | 0 | 10.4 | .309 | .304 | .900 | 1.7 | .7 | .3 | .1 | 3.8 |
2000–01 | Toronto | 38 | 1 | 11.9 | .399 | .363 | .750 | 1.6 | .4 | .2 | .2 | 5.4 |
2001–02 | Toronto | 40 | 3 | 11.8 | .411 | .385 | .810 | 1.3 | .5 | .3 | .2 | 5.7 |
2002–03 | L.A. Lakers | 31 | 0 | 6.1 | .324 | .211 | .778 | .7 | .4 | .2 | .1 | 2.0 |
2003–04 | Portland | 7 | 0 | 5.0 | .250 | .400 | .000 | .7 | .1 | .1 | .0 | 1.1 |
Career | 659 | 80 | 18.4 | .430 | .388 | .829 | 2.5 | .8 | .5 | .2 | 9.0 |
Playoffs
Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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1994 | Portland | 2 | 0 | 5.5 | .500 | .000 | – | 1.5 | .5 | .5 | .0 | 3.0 |
1997 | Washington | 3 | 0 | 29.0 | .567 | .500 | .941 | 3.0 | .7 | 1.3 | .2 | 18.3 |
2001 | Toronto | 2 | 0 | 2.5 | .333 | .000 | – | .0 | .0 | .5 | .0 | 1.0 |
Career | 7 | 0 | 14.7 | .538 | .385 | .941 | 1.7 | .4 | .9 | .3 | 9.0 |
Coaching career
After expressing an interest in coaching at the collegiate level,
On October 15, 2015, Murray was hired by the Los Angeles Lakers as an assistant coach/shooting coach. Head coach Byron Scott describes Murray as "one of the purest shooters I’ve ever seen."[4]
Personal life
Tracy Murray grew up in Glendora, California with his brother Cameron. Cameron, played at USC for 2 years and University of Louisville for 2 years under Hall of Fame Coach Denny Crum. Cameron’s professional experience is playing in the CBA for the Rockford Lightning, tryouts with the Indiana Pacers and the Toronto Raptors and 1 year with the Harlem Globetrotters. They are first cousins with former Los Angeles Clippers small forward Lamond Murray and cousin of former New York Knicks shooting guard Allan Houston.[2] After his playing career ended, he returned to UCLA to graduate and earn his degree in history.
Murray is an avid wrestling fan and frequented many WWE events during his playing days. He is good friends with WWE Hall of Famers Rikishi, the Godfather, and The Undertaker.
Notes
- ^ "UCLA Bruins - Athletics". Archived from the original on 2009-02-06. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
- ^ a b c d e f Former Bruin Tracy Murray Prepares For Next Move Archived 2007-07-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Giving Back One Last Time
- ^ a b "Laker Hire Tracy Murray as Shooting Coach". NBA.com. October 15, 2015. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from NBA.com and Basketball-Reference.com
- Tracy Murray previews the 08/09 NBA season as a guest on The NBA Breakdown
- Tracy Murray takes part in a Toronto Raptors reunion show on The NBA Breakdown