{"id":304,"date":"2025-06-18T17:20:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T17:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2025-06-19T08:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T08:50:27","slug":"dejounte-murray-has-emotional-admission-about-his-first-year-with-pelicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/dejounte-murray-has-emotional-admission-about-his-first-year-with-pelicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Dejounte Murray Has Emotional Admission About His First Year With Pelicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_456295\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-456295\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-456295\" src=\"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2191007214-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"New Orleans Pelicans v Houston Rockets\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-456295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Alex Slitz\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dejounte Murray&#8217;s first season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldwire.com\/sports\/nba\/new-orleans-pelicans\/\">New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> did not go as planned, and he isn&#8217;t making that a secret.<\/p>\n<p>He only appeared in 31 games because of injuries and faced a number of personal issues.<\/p>\n<p>In a new interview, he opened up about how hard it was.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It was a situation where like, I got all these problems going on. Not only my mom, I broke my hand [and] I was recovering, my mom had a stroke. One of my cousins got killed. Then my uncle overdosed. And in the meantime, I&#8217;m not getting what I need in the organization. You can only imagine where my mental was at. I\u2019m stressed, I\u2019m mad every day, I\u2019m sad, I\u2019m angry, I don&#8217;t want to be there at that time. There&#8217;s so much going on,&#8221; Murray said, via NBA Retweet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-script=\"true\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dejounte Murray on his first year with the Pelicans:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#039;m mad, I\u2019m stressed, I\u2019m mad every day, I\u2019m sad, I\u2019m angry, I don&#039;t want to be there at that time&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Hopefully he can bounce back next season <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/15.0.3\/72x72\/1f4aa.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udcaa\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/15.0.3\/72x72\/1f64f.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude4f\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><\/p>\n<p>h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Impatientbull?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Impatientbull<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vKV7UquEK7\">pic.twitter.com\/vKV7UquEK7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA Retweet (@RTNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RTNBA\/status\/1935078178965389805?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Clearly, Murray faced some adversities that no one should ever have to confront, and it had a serious impact on him.<\/p>\n<p>For most of his life, basketball was a safe space and something he could turn to when obstacles were in his way.<\/p>\n<p>But over the last year, it wasn&#8217;t saving him like it used to.<\/p>\n<p>The hope is that things are a lot better for Murray and the Pelicans in the next season.<\/p>\n<p>When he came to New Orleans, he was viewed as a crucial part of their lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, the team faced a lot of challenges when they lost him at the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like Murray hit a personal low last season, and he is ready to move on.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans are also ready to put 2024-25 behind them and have a much happier and productive season.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldwire.com\/dejounte-murray-has-emotional-admission-about-his-first-year-with-pelicans\/\">Dejounte Murray Has Emotional Admission About His First Year With Pelicans<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldwire.com\">The Cold Wire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Alex Slitz\/Getty Images) &nbsp; Dejounte Murray&#8217;s first season with the New Orleans Pelicans did not go ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}