Wealthy Paul advised to David Griffin that the New Orleans Pelicans try to commerce for Dejounte Murray from the Atlanta Hawks this offseason. The Pelicans had tried to commerce for Murray on the commerce deadline, however a deal needed to wait till the interval between the draft and the beginning of free company to get finished.
“Once we had been at group exercises in Los Angeles this 12 months, we had been on the Klutch professional day,” stated Griffin at Murray’s introductory press convention. “We received along with Wealthy Paul there. One of many issues Wealthy stated to us was ‘You already know, you really want to attempt to get Dejounte Murray.’
“We kind of laughed and we stated ‘You already know, we tried to try this at commerce deadline and we weren’t in a position to actually make one thing occur that made sense for each side’. However when he shared with us the joy Dejounte had for our state of affairs, it was actually an eye-opening factor. It was significant to us.”
Murray signed a four-year, $120 million extension with the Hawks in 2023 that additionally contained a 15 % commerce bonus that paid out $12.1 million.
