| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | (1971-07-25)July 25, 1971 (age 54) Los Angeles, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 230 lb (104 kg) | ||||||||||||||
| Career information | |||||||||||||||
| High school | Glendora (Glendora, California) | ||||||||||||||
| College | UCLA (1989–1992) | ||||||||||||||
| NBA draft | 1992: 1st round, 18th overall pick | ||||||||||||||
| Drafted by | San Antonio Spurs | ||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 1992–2007 | ||||||||||||||
| Position | Small forward | ||||||||||||||
| Number | 31, 35, 30, 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Coaching career | 2007–2016 | ||||||||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||||||||
Playing | |||||||||||||||
| 1992–1995 | Portland Trail Blazers | ||||||||||||||
| 1995 | Houston Rockets | ||||||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Toronto Raptors | ||||||||||||||
| 1996–2000 | Washington Bullets / Wizards | ||||||||||||||
| 2000–2001 | Denver Nuggets | ||||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | Toronto Raptors | ||||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Los Angeles Lakers | ||||||||||||||
| 2003 | Portland Trail Blazers | ||||||||||||||
| 2004–2005 | Panathinaikos | ||||||||||||||
| 2005–2006 | P.A.O.K. | ||||||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Élan Chalon | ||||||||||||||
Coaching | |||||||||||||||
| 2007–2009 | Bakersfield Jam (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Tulsa Shock (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Los Angeles Lakers (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| Career highlights | |||||||||||||||
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| Career NBA statistics | |||||||||||||||
| Points | 5,943 (9.0 ppg) | ||||||||||||||
| Rebounds | 1,649 (2.5 rpg) | ||||||||||||||
| Assists | 508 (0.8 apg) | ||||||||||||||
Stats at NBA.com  | |||||||||||||||
| Stats atBasketball Reference | |||||||||||||||
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Tracy Lamont Murray (born July 25, 1971) is an American former professionalbasketball player who works as an analyst with the UCLA Sports Network for all of the games during theUCLA Bruins' basketball season.[1] Tracy is also a part-time analyst on the Slam Dunk Show onABC7 Los Angeles. He worked as an assistant coach for theLos Angeles Lakers of theNational Basketball Association (NBA) for the2015–16 NBA season.
Murray played competitively atGlendora High School[2] inCalifornia. 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 holds the California state record for the most points in a CIF championship game, scoring 64 points. Murray missed his Freshman year due to injury. Murray played on the1989 McDonald's All-American Boys Game for the West roster.
Murray playedcollege basketball for theUCLA Bruins. In 98 games at UCLA, Murray averaged 18.3 PPG, 6.4 RPG, and 1.5 APG and made thePac-10 all-conference team twice. As a junior, he averaged 21.4 points and 7.0 rebounds and led the Pac-10 in three-point shooting at 50%, helping to lead the team to the Elite Eight. After his junior season of college, Murray declared for the1992 NBA draft. Murray left UCLA in the #5 spot on The Bruins All-Time Leading Scoring List.[2]
Murray was inducted into theUCLA Athletics Hall of Fame as a member of the 2021 class.
Murray was selected by theSan Antonio Spurs in the first round of the1992 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 theMilwaukee Bucks for guard/forwardDale Ellis and then dealt by the Bucks to thePortland Trail Blazers for forwardAlaa 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 theHouston Rockets on February 14, 1995, with guardClyde Drexler in exchange for forwardOtis Thorpe, the rights to Argentinian forwardMarcelo Nicola and a1995 first-round draft choice.
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 expansionToronto 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.
He spent four seasons with theWashington 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 theGolden State Warriors[2] on February 10, 1998. Only seven other Washington players have scored 50 or more points in a game, includingMichael Jordan,Bradley Beal, andGilbert Arenas, who are the only players to have since accomplished the feat.
After his tenure with Washington concluded he joined theDenver 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/forwardKeon Clark and centerMamadou N'diaye for centersKevin 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 theLos Angeles Lakers along with the draft rights to guardKareem Rush for guardLindsey Hunter and the draft rights to forwardChris Jefferies on June 26, 2002.
After playing one season at theStaples Center for theLos Angeles Lakers he signed with the Portland Trail Blazers on September 15, 2003, and played his last 7 games of his NBA career with the same team for whom he played the first game of his NBA career.
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 theNew 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.
In 2004, he signed with former European ChampionsPanathinaikos. He played there for one season and then he was transferred toP.A.O.K. BC where he played for another year. He left P.A.O.K. in January 2006. He retired from the NBA in 2004, proceeding to play the 2004–05 season in Greece with Panathinaikos. Then he played the following season with P.A.O.K. also of Greece. Played one more year inÉlan Chalon inChalon-sur-Saône, France.
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]
| 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 anNBA championship | * | Led the league |
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
After expressing an interest in coaching at the collegiate level,[2] Murray served three years (2007–2009) as an assistant coach and player mentor for theBakersfield Jam of theNBA Development League and one year (2011) as an assistant coach for theTulsa Shock of theWomen's National Basketball Association (WNBA).[4]
On October 15, 2015, Murray was hired by theLos 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]
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 formerLos Angeles Clipperssmall forwardLamond Murray and cousin of formerNew York Knicksshooting guardAllan Houston.[2] Tracy Murray now helps in his brother's Prodigy Athletic Institute Program, an AAU program in California where he coaches young people to be student-athletes.[5] He also ran a basketball camp at Glendora High School for 15 years.
After his playing career ended, Murray returned to UCLA to graduate and earn his degree in history.[citation needed]
Murray is an avid wrestling fan and frequented manyWWE events during his playing days. He is good friends with WWE Hall of FamersRikishi,the Godfather, andThe Undertaker.[citation needed]
