It wasn't that long ago he was introduced as the new Oklahoma City Thunder head coach with confusion and skepticism. Five years later, he's gone from an unknown to a household name. The Coach of the Year winner is now the sixth-longest tenured NBA head coach after Gregg Popovich recently announced his retirement from the San Antonio Spurs job.

But OKC has five perimeter defenders (Alex Caruso, Jalen Williams, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Cason Wallace and Lu Dort) who ranked in the 89th percentile or higher in defensive estimated plus-minus (one of the most trusted catch-all metrics in NBA front offices). And all five will get their shots at Murray.