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Sacramento Kings guardant Keegan Murray has agreed to a five-year, $140 cardinal rookie declaration hold with the franchise, representatives Mark Bartelstein and Kyle McAlarney of Priority Sports told ESPN.
Murray, the No. 4 prime successful the 2022 NBA draft, secures a semipermanent hold to stay a cardinal two-way helping successful Sacramento done 2030-31. He deed the crushed moving with the Kings successful his archetypal year, making the All-Rookie squad and helping Sacramento extremity its playoff drought arsenic a full-time starter. His violative numbers person plateaued immoderate since that season, but helium has developed arsenic a beardown defender connected the wing, a large request for an offensively slanted Kings team.
Murray is 1 of 3 players to grounds 500 3-pointers, 150 blocks and 150 steals implicit the past 3 seasons, on with Minnesota's Anthony Edwards and Boston's Derrick White, according to ESPN Research. He serves arsenic the Kings' superior perimeter defender, guarding 2025 All-Stars for 1,005 halfcourt matchups past season, fifth-most successful the NBA.
Murray averaged 12.4 points, 6.7 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 34.3 minutes successful 76 games past season. The 25-year-old had been remarkably steadfast done the archetypal 3 years of his career, having played 233 retired of 246 full games, but is acceptable to miss respective weeks to statesman this play due to the fact that of a torn UCL successful his near thumb.
Murray is 1 of 7 players all-time to marque astatine slightest 150 3-pointers successful each of his archetypal 3 NBA seasons, according to ESPN Research.
He is the sixth subordinate to hold to a rookie hold this twelvemonth up of Monday's 11:59 p.m. ET deadline.
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