Gareth Murray (born 23 September 1984) is a Scottish basketball coach and former professional

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player. He is the current head coach for

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Early life

Murray was born in

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Professional career

Murray started his career with the

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in 2006. Murray has also played for fellow

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clubs

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and 2010–11 and 2014–15 as well as

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also in 2014–15. Murray has also taken his talents over the channel with NM1 clubs Vendee Challans in 2014–15 and Angers BC in 2015–16.

National team career

Murray earned his first call-up to the

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in 2013. He has since featured in all of Great Britain's major tournaments and qualifying campaigns including

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and

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. During that time, Murray has established a reputation as one of the National Team's finest marksmen with a national team career three-point field goal percentage of 0.407 (55/135) as of 24 February 2020.

Coaching career

On 16 July 2020, Murray was announced as the Rocks'

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, which later were renamed Caledonia Gladiators. In 2022–23, he guided the team to winning the

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. On 5 December 2024, he was hired as head coach of Slovak club

Club statistics

Career statistics

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, 34 , , 34 , , , , 41.3 , , 34.3 , , 86.2 , , 4.6 , , 1.7 , , 1.3 , , 0.2 , , 13.8 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2009-10 , style="text-align:left;",

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, 35 , , 35 , , 32.8 , , 43.1 , , 30.1 , , 72.6 , , 5.1 , , 2 , , 1 , , 0.4 , , 10.9 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2010-11 , style="text-align:left;",

Cheshire Jets The Cheshire Phoenix are an English professional basketball team based in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. Founded in 1984, they are members of the Super League Basketball and play their home games at the Cheshire Oaks Arena. From 1993 until 2015 the ...

, 33 , , 33 , , 33.0 , , 43.4 , , 41.5 , , 67.8 , , 4.8 , , 2.2 , , 1.7 , , 0.4 , , 10.8 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2011-12 , style="text-align:left;",

, 30 , , 25 , , 34.6 , , 42.2 , , 32 , , 67.9 , , 5.2 , , 2.7 , , 1 , , 0.4 , , 12.9 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2012-13 , style="text-align:left;",

, 33 , , 26 , , 32.8 , , 43 , , 35 , , 86'2 , , 6 , , 3.1 , , 1.1 , , 0.3 , , 12.2 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2013-14 , style="text-align:left;",

, 33 , , 30 , , 32.9 , , 39.4 , , 32.8 , , 80.6 , , 4.3 , , 3.1 , , 1 , , 0.4 , , 12'6 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2014 , style="text-align:left;", Vendee Challans , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - , style="text-align:left;",

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

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, 4 , , 3 , , 35.2 , , 37 , , 39.3 , , 100 , , 5.5 , , 2.5 , , 0.5 , , 0.3 , , 11.5 , - , style="text-align:left;",

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

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, 18 , , 14 , , 34.5 , , 39.9 , , 27.2 , , 80.6 , , 6.3 , , 2.9 , , 1.3 , , 0.4 , , 10.9 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2015-16 , style="text-align:left;", Angers BC , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - , style="text-align:left;", 2016-17 , style="text-align:left;",

, 28 , , 27 , , 29.9 , , 54.3 , , 42.3 , , 79.5 , , 4.3 , , 2.1 , , 0.7 , , 0.2 , , 12.8 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2017-18 , style="text-align:left;",

, 27 , , 27 , , 28.8 , , 45.6 , , 36.2 , , 84.1 , , 3.9 , , 3.1 , , 0.7 , , 0.3 , , 12.5 , -

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Murray, Gareth 1984 births Living people British expatriate basketball people in France Cheshire Phoenix players Caledonia Gladiators players Basketball player-coaches Scottish expatriate sportspeople in France Scottish expatriate sportspeople in Malaysia Scottish men's basketball players Small forwards Scottish basketball coaches Expatriate basketball people in Malaysia Sportspeople from Arbroath Commonwealth Games competitors for Scotland Basketball players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Basketball players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Perak Farmcochem BC players 21st-century Scottish sportsmen