Dejounte Murray Champions Victor Wembanyama’s Monumental Season
Atlanta Hawks point guard, Dejounte Murray recently took to social media to express his view on the incredible rookie season of French prospect Victor Wembanyama. Described as a phenomenon of the current season in the regular championship, where he started his NBA career, Wembanyama concluded the first year with great results and records.
Wembanyama’s Rookie Achievements
Victor Wembanyama’s rookie season statistics are nothing short of stellar:
- Points per game: 21.4
- Rebounds per game: 10.6
- Assists per game: 3.9
- Steals per game: 1.2
- Blocks per game: 3.6
- Field goal percentage: 46.5%
- Three-point percentage: 32.5%
- Games played: 71
The Wembanyama’s performance helped him secure the 2024 Rookie of the Year award and All-Defensive First Team. His protective skills have been remarkable and unprecedented, becoming the first rookie to play the All-Defensive First Team.
Victor Wembanyama really did all this in his first NBA season 🤯
🔹Rookie of the Year
🔹All-Rookie 1st Team
🔹NBA blocks leader
🔹All-Defensive 1st Team (first rookie ever)
🔹DPOY Runner-Up pic.twitter.com/xfeOcQCk5q— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) May 22, 2024
Jordan Howenstine from Spurs PR highlighted Wembanyama’s historic accomplishment:
Victor Wembanyama is the first rookie in NBA history to make First Team All-Defense.
He’s also the youngest to make any All-Defensive team (20 years, 101 days at end of season), replacing Dejounte Murray’s 2018 season with the Spurs.
— Jordan Howenstine (@AirlessJordan) May 21, 2024
Dejounte Murray’s Reaction
NBA player Dejounte Murray, who also used to record all-defensive first team at a young age, encouraged Howenstine with excitement in response to this post on Twitter. The post by Murray attracted a lot of interest with over 7k likes and almost 600k impressions. He simply wrote:
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/ON3K9uoSVi
— Dejounte Murray (@DejounteMurray) May 21, 2024
Murray, selected as the 29th pick in the year 2016 NBA Draft, began his professional career playing for the San Antonio Spurs, this season moved to the Atlanta Hawks. Overall in this past season, Murray has been constantly averaging at 22. 5 points, 5. 3 rebounds, 6. 4 assists, and 1. rebounds per game, along with 4 steals and 45% from the field. 9 percent field goal and 36. 3% from three-point range.
The Atlanta Hawks, however, had a somewhat difficult season despite Murray and his exceptional scoring. They played the Chicago Bulls in the last qualifier bout for the playoffs and lost the match, and this season, they placed tenth in the Eastern Conference with 36-46 records.
Currently, Victor Wembanyama is making his rookie season a record-breaking one and this has led to other actual stars such as Dejounte Murray paying tribute to him. Over time, the NBA is experiencing structural changes, and new talents such as Wembanyama are already making their mark early into their professional careers, therefore, the NBA has brighter days ahead of.