Despite recent inflammatory comments, Dejounte Murray still has fans in the Spurs’...
Murray made the All-Star team last season. Over the summer, the Spurs sent Murray to Atlanta for three future first-round draft picks.His departure opened the door for Jones to assume the Spurs’ starting point guard role.“He means well,” Jones said before Friday’s game against the Los Angeles Clippers. “Everyone in that locker room respected him. We all have a good relationship with him still. I don’t think there’s any bad blood there, but sometimes people spin it out to be something different.
Jones said he last communicated with his former teammate a few weeks ago, when Murray reached out with news he was expecting a new daughter. Sochan’s chippiness has been as heartening to his Spurs teammates as it has been irritating to opponents.“Sometimes,” Branham said. “It just depends on how he feels. He just a ball of energy. He’s picking up everybody.”The Spurs signed veteran forward Gorgui Dieng to a second 10-day contract Friday, a transaction that produced all smiles among his once-and-future teammates.Dieng is the oldest player on the Spurs’ roster, having turned 33 on Wednesday, and also one of their most gregarious.
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