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Kris Murray was taken by the Portland Trail Blazers with the 23rd pick in the first round of Thursday night’s NBA draft.

Iowa junior forward Kris Murray is a likely first-round pick in the 2023 NBA Draft, with a multitude of possible landing spots.

Twins Kris and Keegan Murray, about to reunite in the NBA this week, were surrounded by plenty of fine athletes in high school at Cedar Rapids Prairie.

Former standout Iowa men’s basketball player Ryan Bowen is a longtime assistant coach with the NBA champion Denver Nuggets.

A record-setting rookie season in the NBA hasn’t changed AJ Green. The Cedar Falls native and former two-time Missouri Valley Conference player of the year at Northern Iowa remains as tirelessly committed to his craft and as plain spoken as he was when he was living in his hometown and playing for the Panthers.

Iowa’s 2021 National Player of the Year hopes for a second season with the Minnesota Timberwolves after opening a few eyes last season, including his own.

Keegan Murray became the first former University of Iowa basketball player to make the NBA’s All-Rookie Team in its 60-year history.

Keegan Murray of Cedar Rapids Prairie and the University of Iowa was fifth in the NBA Rookie of the Year voting, announced Tuesday.

Iowa forward Kris Murray has been through the pre-NBA draft process before, but this time it’s for keeps.

Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery has talked to a lot of NBA teams in the last couple weeks, and they seem to like what they see with Iowa’s Kris Murray.

In only his third season, Tyrese Haliburton already is an NBA All-Star. But the former Iowa State standout viewed his first appearance in the midseason classic as a launching point for bigger and better things in his career.

Murray was 3rd-team All-America, averaged over 20 points a game for Hawkeyes.

Cedar Rapids’ Keegan Murray has an NBA rookie record 188 3-pointers for a Sacramento Kings team headed for the playoffs for the first time since 2006.

In 18 games with the NBA G League’s Wisconsin Herd this season, former Cyclone Lindell Wigginton is averaging 18.8 points, 5.7 assists, 3.7 rebounds, and 1.0 steals per game.

Sacramento Kings rookie Keegan Murray had friendly fans in the stands in two games against the Minnesota Timberwolves. The former Iowa All-American produced his third double-double of his rookie NBA season in Monday night’s win.