Dejounte Murray’s Global Pivot: How One NBA Trade Became a 21st-Century Soft-Power Parable
The Curious Diplomacy of Dejounte Murray, or How One Mid-Cycle Trade Became a Soft-Power Parable By Alistair “Ali” Bakhtiar, currently in transit somewhere above the Caspian Sea PARIS—On paper it’s just another NBA salary-cap footnote: Dejounte Murray, the league’s resident triple-double whisperer, leaves the Atlanta Hawks for the New Orleans Pelicans in exchange for a…