{"id":112228,"date":"2025-06-20T14:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/112228\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T14:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:31:08","slug":"southwest-notes-murray-edey-flagg-mavs-hooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/112228\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Notes: Murray, Edey, Flagg, Mavs, Hooper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Appearing on The Pivot Podcast (YouTube link<\/a>) this week, Pelicans guard Dejounte Murray<\/a> said he has \u201cnothing but love\u201d for New Orleans but that the last year was his \u201cworst experience in the NBA,\u201d as Rashad Milligan of NOLA.com<\/a> relays.<\/p>\n

In addition to sustaining two major injuries \u2013 a broken hand and a torn Achilles \u2013 Murray dealt with a series of tragedies in his personal life, including the death of a cousin, his mother suffering a stroke, and an uncle overdosing. He also felt that he wasn\u2019t getting the sort of support he needed from the Pelicans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe organization, it got bad, man,\u201d he said. \u201cAs you guys can see, such and such got fired, another guy left, they brought new people in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pelicans executive VP of basketball operations David Griffin was let go<\/a> at the end of the season, while general manager Bryson Graham left New Orleans to take a job<\/a> in the Hawks\u2019 front office.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m stressed, I\u2019m mad everyday, I\u2019m sad, I\u2019m angry, I don\u2019t want to be there at that time. It\u2019s just so much going on,\u201d Murray said, describing his mental state during the season. \u201c\u2026 It wasn\u2019t just me, it was everybody\u2019s mental. Every player. I hope this brings peace to my brothers. I hope everyone gets what they need. I hope the organization gets it together because you have the talent, but it ain\u2019t just the talent. You need every dot to connect to have a chance to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

We have more from around the Southwest:<\/p>\n

Grizzlies center Zach Edey<\/a> will have an initial hearing on Monday for a misdemeanor charge of reckless driving, according to Ron Wilkins of the Lafayette Journal & Courier<\/a>. As Wilkins reports, Indiana police say that stopped Edey on May 1 after he was driving 101 mph in a 55-mph zone. He told the state trooper who pulled him over that he was speeding because he was trying to pass another vehicle.
\nMike Curtis of The Dallas Morning News<\/a> (subscriber link) takes an inside look at Cooper Flagg<\/a>\u2018s visit to Dallas this week, which included a Tuesday dinner with general manager Nico Harrison, head coach Jason Kidd, CEO Rick Welts, assistant GM Michael Finley, and other Mavericks staffers. According to Curtis, Flagg\u2019s visit also included meetings with members of the Mavs\u2019 business operations department, a tour of the team\u2019s facilities, and a standard workout that included situational reads and shooting drills. He reportedly shot the ball \u201cinsanely well\u201d during that workout, a league source tells Noah Weber of The Smoking Cuban<\/a>.
\nWith Flagg set to join the Mavericks next Wednesday as the No. 1 pick in this year\u2019s draft, Chris Mannix takes an in-depth look<\/a> at the star prospect in a cover story for Sports Illustrated.
\nThe Mavericks plan to name Max Hooper as the new head coach of their G League affiliate, the Texas Legends, reports Marc Stein (Twitter link<\/a>). Hooper, the head video coordinator in Dallas, will replace Jordan Sears, who is expected to move back to the Mavs\u2019 coaching staff after coaching the Legends for the past two seasons, Stein explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Appearing on The Pivot Podcast (YouTube link) this week, Pelicans guard Dejounte Murray said he has \u201cnothing but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,225,686,149,4057,2878,3716,23376,166,22609,13147,6,591,9125,1083],"class_list":{"0":"post-112228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cooper-flagg","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-mavericks","12":"tag-dallasmavericks","13":"tag-dejounte-murray","14":"tag-jason-kidd","15":"tag-jordan-sears","16":"tag-mavericks","17":"tag-max-hooper","18":"tag-michael-finley","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-nico-harrison","21":"tag-rick-welts","22":"tag-zach-edey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114716179442672343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}