{"id":156354,"date":"2025-07-08T18:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T18:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/156354\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T18:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T18:06:15","slug":"utah-jazz-sign-ole-miss-basketball-guard-matthew-murrell-after-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/156354\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz sign Ole Miss basketball guard Matthew Murrell after NBA draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew Murrell<\/a> didn’t get his name called during the 2025 NBA Draft, but he has still earned a shot to play at the highest level.<\/p>\n

Murrell signed with the Utah Jazz<\/a> as an undrafted free agent on June 27. It provides an opportunity to go to camp with the Jazz and make the roster.<\/p>\n

The Jazz are getting a 6-foot-4, 200-pound guard who is a strong defender. Murrell was plagued with a lower-body injury throughout 2024-25. He averaged 10.8 points and 3.8 rebounds.<\/p>\n

He is leaving Ole Miss<\/a> after playing in 153 games in five seasons. It’s an Ole Miss record.<\/p>\n

Murrell’s strongest season came in 2023-24 when he averaged 16.2 points. When he’s at his best, he is a physical defender and threat to drive or shoot a 3-pointer. Murrell is a career 34.8% 3-point shooter.<\/p>\n

Point guard Sean Pedulla<\/a> is the other Rebel off the 2024-25 team to sign an NBA contract. Pedulla got a deal with the Portland Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n

Sam Hutchens covers Ole Miss for the Clarion Ledger. Email him at Shutchens@gannett.com or reach him on X at @Sam_Hutchens_<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Mississippi Clarion Ledger: Ole Miss basketball’s Matthew Murrell gets NBA contract with Utah Jazz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Murrell didn’t get his name called during the 2025 NBA Draft, but he has still earned a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,25617,26077,6,12,4001,471,25614,20939,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-156354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-matthew-murrell","10":"tag-murrell","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-draft","13":"tag-ole-miss","14":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","15":"tag-sean-pedulla","16":"tag-undrafted-free-agent","17":"tag-utah-jazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114818946462169103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156354","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=156354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}