Dejounte Murray, who recently aired his frustrations in a public rant on social media, is requesting a trade away from the New Orleans Pelicans franchise.
“New Orleans Pelicans guard Dejounte Murray wants a trade from the franchise, and his agent Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul and team officials have started working on a resolution for the one-time All-Star, sources tell ESPN,” NBA insider Shams Charania reported on Friday.
Murray responded to criticism of his play in Wednesday night’s blowout loss to the Brooklyn Nets, posting and deleting a series of profane responses.
“Ohhhhh let’s talk about it,” Murray wrote in the since-deleted post. “When you run post plays, are they suppose to catch on the block or the 3pt line? Let’s hear it Mr social media coach, Gm and President? You have no [expletive] clue what we dealing with.”
“Maybe you should ask the whole team individually how they feel on a serious note and then pull rethink a lot of [expletive],” he continued. “You’ll be embarrassed to be a fan of this [expletive] IF YOU KNEW WHY I’m saying scapegoat or sabotage based off what’s going on real talk!!!”
“From what’s going on INSIDE, this sounds like someone hit you to say this!!” Murray added in a separate post responding to a stat noting that the Pelicans are 1-8 with him on the court. “THE ‘SABOTAGE’ IS REAL!!”
Murray is averaging 13.4 points, 4.6 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game so far this season.
Murray was downgraded to out for tonight’s NBA Cup group stage matchup against the Memphis Grizzlies.