Dejounte Murray on Gregg Popovich: So for me, he was like a father figure. There’s so many stories—if he were able to sit here and talk, he’d tell you: he’s never had a player come into his office and cry on his shoulder about how many murders he had to deal with back home in Seattle, how many funerals I had to pay for. It was so crazy—a lot of my people don’t even know this. From family, friends, and the penitentiary… Pop didn’t want me to go to Seattle. When I first got drafted, I wouldn’t go to Seattle. And that was a man who cared about me. That was a man who wanted me to reach my full potential in life first—then as a basketball player. He’s so real. He tried to move my mom to San Antonio with his own money after she got shot. My mom was shot in the leg my rookie year. He called her himself—without me knowing until after the fact. “We want to move you here.” No—not with his money, with my money. That sounds like a dude that cares about me and loves me, right?
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Ok I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole here. I’m just gonna ask the question. Independent of salary, who provides more value over the next three years:
Paul George in his age-35, 36 and 37 seasons.
Or
Dejounte Murray, post-Achilles tear, in his age-29, 30 and 31 seasons? – 4:44 PM
Ok I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole here. I’m just gonna ask the question. Independent of salary, who provides more value over the next three years:
Paul George in his age-35, 36 and 37 seasons.
Or
Dejounte Murray, post-Achilles tear, in his age-29, 30 and 31 seasons? – 4:44 PM
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Dejounte Murray: I never wanted nothing from them, from you, from anyone. It was, I’ma get it myself. And for me—it hurts me. Sometimes I go days where I don’t even want to answer the phone to talk to them because of the guilt. You know what I’m saying? I look at it like, Damn—they in prison. Or the others—they’re dead. Why? Why not me? What makes me so different than them? We were doing the same things. -via YouTube / June 18, 2025
When a man’s in and out of your life—you work to get to this place— I don’t know if it was when you tore your ACL in San Antonio or what… and your father, your biological father, messages you and says: “Yeah, somebody’s going to go get your spot.” What is your response to that? Dejounte Murray: I was hurt. Because I love him. And I know he loved me—like more of, I know he loved me, straight up. We might not have had the best relationship, and I never called him a deadbeat. He knows I love him, you know, at the end of the day. But I don’t know what makes a father say that. -via YouTube / June 18, 2025
I know you log in in the morning and send your messages to your family and friends that are in penitentiaries— How have you dealt with any survivor’s remorse or guilt being the one that made it? Dejounte Murray: Every day. Every day. Just talking to them. You know what I’m saying? It’s like—I know what we’ve done. I know what we was involved in. And like I said—accountability—that’s me. Accountability. That’s it and that’s all. I don’t have time to point fingers. Nah—it’s accountability. That’s the only way you’re able to grow. You make mistakes—and if you can’t take accountability for it, you’ll never grow. You know what I’m saying? Whatever it is. So, for me—it hurts me, you know? Because my partners—they’re not in jail for a year, five years, ten years— we’re talking about dudes in there for 20, 40, 60, 80. -via YouTube / June 18, 2025