To gain more insight into one of the newest members of the New Orleans Pelicans – No. 17 overall NBA draft pick Trey Murphy III, a forward from the University of Virginia – we caught up with Jeff White, a writer for the school’s VirginiaSports.com. White, who writes extensively about Cavaliers sports, including basketball, provided Pelicans.com with additional background about Murphy’s career and productive season in Charlottesville.
The 21-year-old Murphy spent the first two seasons of his NCAA career at Rice, before transferring to Virginia and becoming an important contributor for the Cavaliers in 2020-21:
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