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Guard · 2012–13

Kevin Murphy

At Tennessee Tech, Murphy hung 50 points on SIU Edwardsville in January 2012 — the highest single-game total by any Division I player that season. The Jazz drafted him 47th that summer, and he split his rookie year between Utah and the D-League's Reno Bighorns before departing in the 2013 three-team trade built around Andre Iguodala.

Few Jazzmen have played in more places since: France, Japan, China — where he once scored 67 points in a game — Croatia, the Philippines, Kuwait and Libya, plus a BIG3 MVP award in 2022. He plays today for Sagesse Club in Lebanon.

HOW HE CAME & WENTUtah took him 47th overall in 2012, re-signed him in August 2014 and waived him that October before the season.

Full name
Kevin Marquis Murphy
Utah Jazz tenure
2012–13
Position
Guard
Born
1990, Columbia, Tennessee
Height
6′5″ (196 cm)
Weight
185 lb (84 kg)
College
Tennessee Tech
Drafted
2012, 2nd round (No. 47), Utah
Signature in the archive 2013 Threads Basketball #247 Rookie (RC, AU)

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With the Jazz

KEVIN MURPHY · 2012–13 · PER GAME
SEASONTEAMGMPGPPGRPGAPGSPGBPGFG%3P%FT%
2012–13UTA173.10.90.20.10.10.0.250.200
JAZZ TOTAL1 SEASON173.10.90.20.10.10.0.250.200

Season by season, regular season, with this franchise only. More info: Basketball-Reference ↗  ·  Wikipedia ↗

Did you know

KEVIN MURPHY · 4 NOTES
  • He led the entire D-League in scoring at 25.5 points a game for the Idaho Stampede in 2013-14.
  • By one count his professional travels have carried him through seventeen countries on four continents, from the Philippines to Bahrain to Libya.
  • In his first Philippine season he averaged 30.1 points, 8.3 rebounds and 5.0 assists for the San Miguel Beermen.
  • In November 2024 he scored 34 points in Abidjan, the go-ahead dagger among them, to clinch Al Ahli Tripoli's first Basketball Africa League berth.