Gareth Murray (born 23 September 1984) is a Scottish basketball coach and former professional basketball player. He is the current head coach for Prievidza in Slovak Basketball League.
Murray was born in Arbroath.
Murray started his career with the Scottish Rocks in 2006. Murray has also played for fellow British Basketball League clubs Cheshire Phoenix and 2010âÂÂ11 and 2014âÂÂ15 as well as Plymouth Raiders also in 2014âÂÂ15. Murray has also taken his talents over the channel with NM1 clubs Vendee Challans in 2014âÂÂ15 and Angers BC in 2015âÂÂ16.
Murray earned his first call-up to the Great Britain men's national basketball team in 2013. He has since featured in all of Great Britain's major tournaments and qualifying campaigns including FIBA Eurobasket 2013 and FIBA Eurobasket 2017. 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.
On 16 July 2020, Murray was announced as the Rocks' player-coach, which later were renamed Caledonia Gladiators. In 2022âÂÂ23, he guided the team to winning the BBL Trophy. On 5 December 2024, he was hired as head coach of Slovak club BC Prievidza.
|- |style="text-align:left;"|2008-09 |style="text-align:left;"|Scottish Rocks |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;"|Glasgow Rocks |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 |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;"|Glasgow Rocks |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;"|Glasgow Rocks |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;"|Glasgow Rocks |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 |style="text-align:left;"|Cheshire Phoenix |4 ||3 ||35.2 ||37 ||39.3 ||100 ||5.5 ||2.5 ||0.5 ||0.3 ||11.5 |- |style="text-align:left;"|2015 |style="text-align:left;"|Plymouth Raiders |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;"|Glasgow Rocks |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;"|Glasgow Rocks |27 ||27 ||28.8 ||45.6 ||36.2 ||84.1 ||3.9 ||3.1 ||0.7 ||0.3 ||12.5 |-