Murray-Boyles robbed in NBA re-draft
The players chosen ahead of Collin Murray-Boyles were Khaman Maluach, Egor Demin, Ryan Kalkbrenner, Tre Johnson (who was picked by the Raptors in the re-draft), Derik Queen, Jeremiah Fears, Ace Bailey, Cedric Coward, Kon Knueppel, VJ Edgecombe, Dylan Harper and Cooper Flagg.
Of those players, Maluach, Demin, Kalkbrenner, Queen and Coward were all picked after Murray-Boyles back in the summer, yet all of them have surpassed him in less than two months of their rookie season.
Some of these decisions are understandable. Queen just posted a triple-double with the New Orleans Pelicans, while Coward has been incredible for the Memphis Grizzlies averaging 13.3 points per game. However, some of these decisions are somewhat odd.
Demin is averaging just 1.3 points per game more than CMB, while Kalkbrenner has been good as a starter for the Charlotte Hornets, but he isn’t blowing the roof off of things.
The most egregious decision was to put Maluach, who is averaging 4.5 minutes per game, ahead of Murray-Boyles despite him being in the G League for a good chunk of the season.
Maluach may have been a bigger name in college at Duke, but he hasn’t had the same amount of noise in the pros. Eventually, Maluach could be a good pro, even better than Murray-Boyles, but to say that the Raptors forward is not as good as the Suns’ seldom-used center is unfair.
Murray-Boyles and the Raptors will return to the court on Monday against the Miami Heat at 7:30 p.m. ET.