Education
University of Florida.
University of Florida.
He also represents the Finnish national team Murphy played high school basketball at Saint Mark"s School in Southborough, Massachusetts. Considered a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, Murphy was listed as the Number.
22 power forward and the Number.
79 player in the nation in 2009. Murphy accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Billy Donovan"s Florida Gators men"s basketball team from 2009 to 2013.
Murphy became the 49th Florida Gator to record 1,000 points in his collegiate career and was the only Gator to receive first-team all-conference accolades in 2013. He proceeded to become a regular in the starting lineup in his junior year, and was named to the All-Securities and Exchange Commission Tournament team in 2012 and 2013.
Murphy was selected with the 49th overall pick by the Chicago Bulls in the 2013 National Basketball Association draft.
On July 10, 2013, he signed his rookie scale contract with the Bulls. On November 6, 2013, Murphy made his National Basketball Association debut for the Bulls, playing one minute and not recording any statistics He scored a career-high 2 points on three different occasions: December 10, 2013 versus
Milwaukee, December 28, 2013 versus
Dallas, and March 13, 2014 versus Houston. On April 3, 2014, he was waived by the Bulls.
On April 5, 2014, he was claimed off waivers by the Utah Jazz. On September 25, 2014, he was traded, along with John Lucas III, Dwight Powell, Malcolm Thomas and the Cavaliers" 2016 and 2017 second-round picks, to the Boston Celtics in exchange for Keith Bogans and two future second-round picks.
On October 27, 2014, he was waived by the Celtics.
On November 1, 2014, Murphy was selected by the Austin Spurs with the third overall pick in the 2014 National Basketball Association Doctorate-League draft. On July 4, 2015, Murphy signed with Beşiktaş of the Turkish Basketball League for the 2015-2016 season. Murphy made his debut for the Finnish national team in August 2014 in a friendly match against Lithuania.
He recorded nine points and five rebounds in his debut appearance.
He later played in the 2014 International Basketball Federation Basketball World Cup where Finland"s campaign was ended at the group stages. Murphy averaged 6.8 points over five games.
He represented Finland again at EuroBasket 2015, helping his team advance out of the group stage.