This is Murray’s third season in the Association and with the Blazers running a more up-tempo offense than in his first two seasons, he is thriving, averaging career-highs in minutes (22.8), 3-point percentage (31.6) and effective field goal percentage (53.6).
Iowans in the NBA: Former Cedar Falls High School standout and UNI star has found a home in professional basketball
Iowa point guard is a consensus Top 16 pick of those who make way-too-early mock drafts for national publications.
Sandfort likely will play on Thunder’s NBA Summer League team in Las Vegas next month.
Haliburton’s incredible postseason run with the Indiana Pacers reaches an NBA Finals Game 7 in Oklahoma City.
Indiana Pacer guard was honored at Hilton Coliseum for winning Olympic gold with Team USA, at halftime of Saturday’s Big 12 win over Arizona
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Iowans in NBA: Kris Murray, former Cedar Rapids Prairie and Iowa Hawkeye feels more comfortable in the league in the early part of 2024-25 season.
Hawkeye forward Payton Sandfort was terrific last season in many ways. He wants to bow out at Iowa with a big senior season and “a ton of wins” before turning toward pro basketball.
The Olympics reinforced that basketball not only is enjoyed world-wide, but is played at a new, higher level globally than ever before.
Former Iowa basketball player Joe Wieskamp will play in Australia next season. Wieskamp spent three years in the NBA and NBA G League after leaving Iowa in 2021.
Two former Iowa State men’s basketball teammates meet on opposite teams Wednesday at the Olympics in Paris. Marial Shayok will be on the South Sudan team that will try to throw a second scare into Tyrese Haliburton’s United States squad within two weeks.
Luka Garza, the consensus men’s basketball National Player of the Year as an Iowa senior in 2021, has signed a two-year contract with the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves. He could have opted for free agency.
NBA players Kris and Keegan Murray returned to their high school alma mater Cedar Rapids Prairie on Thursday to be honored with a special wall display of them outside of the school’s main gymnasium and by having their Prairie jerseys retired and honorarily hung inside the gym.
Payton Sandfort announced Wednesday night that he was withdrawing from the NBA draft to return to the Hawkeyes. The senior-to-be wing will provide perimeter shooting, rebounding, leadership in his senior season.
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