Born: 5/9/48 in Norwalk, Conn. USA
Honours: Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame(1993), NBA All-Rookie Team (1971), NBA All-Star (1979),
"As a basketball player Calvin Murphy had these skills: speed, quickness, great hands, ball handling kills, great leaping ability and the shooting eye of an eagle. Like the NBA's heavyweights, he earned the game's ultimate reward when he was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993 after a stellar schoolboy, collegiate and 13-year NBA career.
He became obsessed with two things: basketball and baton twirling. Surely the only NBA star ever to claim a national championship in baton twirling which he did as a teen-ager in 1963, he picked up a twirler’s baton even before he did a basketball. He inherited both interests from his mother, Ina, a one-time majorette who had also played guard with a semipro basketball team in North Carolina.
Now "Murph" currently works with the Rockets in a variety of positions, including as an analyst for televised games. He has also used his voice as a color commentator for PlayStation NBA Live 2003."
(2010 NBA Media Ventures, LLC)
Watch Murphy show us that Baton Twirling can improve your dribbling!
Red on Roundball: Dexterity Dribbling
