Dejounte Murray Explains Why He Returned For 14 Games Last Season
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Back at the end of last season after more than a year of absence because of a break in the Achilles tendon, Dejounte Murray believes that he had passed the most difficult event of his career. Like a Damian Lillard or a Tyrese Haliburton, Dejounte Murray could have made a cross all last season. Victim of a break in the Achilles tendon on 31 January 2025, the Pelicans leader had spent more than a year away from the field before finally returning t…
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Pelicans Dejounte Murray could have taken the safer route last season. Instead, the Pelicans guard wanted back on the floor. Murray returned from a torn Achilles in February, more than a year after suffering the injury, and appeared in 14 games despite New Orleans sitting near the bottom of the Western Conference. He told Cyro Asseo of HoopsHype that even the remote possibility of reaching the play-in tournament gave him something worth returnin…
Dejounte Murray Explains Why He Returned For 14 Games Last Season
It would have been easy for Dejounte Murray to sit out all of last season while recovering from a torn Achilles tendon, but the Pelicans guard explains in an interview with Cyro Asseo of HoopsHype why it was important for him to return to action. More than a year elapsed from the time Murray suffered the injury on January 31, 2025, until his return on February 24 of this year. New Orleans was lingering near the bottom of the West at the time, bu…
Dejounte Murray says Achilles rehab was harder than ACL recovery
Dejounte Murray said the mental challenge of recovering from a torn Achilles was greater than his previous ACL rehabilitation, but returning for the final 14 games of the 2025-26 season gave him confidence heading into a new year with the New Orleans Pelicans. Murray told Cyro Asseo of HoopsHype that he took roughly 12 months […] The post Dejounte Murray says Achilles rehab was harder than ACL recovery appeared first on TalkBasket.net.
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