Discuss South Carolina basketball<\/a>!<\/p>\nMurray-Boyles spent two seasons playing for his hometown Gamecocks under head coach Lamont Paris. The Columbia, SC-native averaged 13.8 points per game during his career with South Carolina. His freshman season saw the Gamecocks reach the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2017.<\/p>\n
The Toronto Raptors selected Murray-Boyles with the ninth pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. The selection made Murray-Boyles the first South Carolina player selected in the NBA Lottery during the modern draft era.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Murray-Boyles is the third-highest drafted Gamecock and the ninth first-round pick in program history. He is the first former South Carolina player selected to an NBA All-Rookie team.<\/p>\n
The NBA has named an all-rookie team every year since the 1962-63 season. The league introduced the second team during the 1988-89 season.<\/p>\n
The Raptors rookie averaged 8.5 points per game alongside five rebounds and nearly two assists per game in 57 games during the 2025-26 season. Of his 57 games, he started 22 times. While his season showcased flashes of potential, it was an up-and-down campaign for the rookie forward. <\/p>\n
However, the former South Carolina forward turned up the heat when the 2026 NBA Playoffs began. <\/p>\n
The former Gamecock concluded his 2026 rookie campaign while shattering many rookie records in the playoffs. In Game 3 of the first round, he became the first Raptors rookie to score 20 or more in a playoff game. In Game 4, Murray-Boyles became the third Raptors rookie to record a double-double in the NBA playoffs. He joins Scottie Barnes (2022) and Jamario Moon (2008) with that honor. <\/p>\n
The Raptors rookie finished his first career playoffs averaging 14.4 points per game, alongside six rebounds, two assists, a block, and a steal in a seven-game series loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers. His 31 points in his first two playoff games marked a Raptors rookie record.<\/p>\n
During his exit interviews following the season, Murray-Boyles told the media the series taught him to stay disciplined. Additionally, it allowed for more mental growth.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust showing me what it takes to be competitors, and contenders at that,\u201d Murray-Boyles said. \u201d \u2026 Just have to follow [the] scout and be more locked in on that aspect of the game \u2026 It\u2019s a lot of things that push a team ahead.\u201d <\/p>\n
Now fully settled into his NBA career, he hopes to take that next step, with a new award to boot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former South Carolina forward Collin Murray-Boyles earned second-team All-Rookie Team honors following a strong opening campaign to his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,1453,6,681,680,476,3820],"class_list":["post-740108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-raptors","tag-basketball","tag-collin-murray-boyles-23-wasatch-academy","tag-nba","tag-raptors","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-torontoraptors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116612200195737926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740108","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=740108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}