Autographs of Calvin Murphy
Calvin Jerome Murphy (born May 9, 1948) is an American former professional basketball player who after a prolific collegiate career at Niagara University, where he averaged 33.1 points per game over his three years, played in the National Basketball Association as a guard for the San Diego/Houston Rockets from 1970 to 1983. He is currently a member of the Houston Rockets' Space City Home Network broadcast team. Standing at a height of 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m), Murphy has the distinction of being the shortest NBA player inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and to play in an NBA All-Star Game (the latter since tied by Isaiah Thomas in 2016).
Before basketball, Calvin Murphy was a world-class baton twirler. He says he was "bullied into it" as his mother and all six of her sisters were twirlers. As an 8th grader, in 1963, he won a national championship in baton twirling. His reputation as a twirler earned him invitations to perform at major sporting events and the 1964 New York World's Fair. In 1977, at the height of his basketball career in Houston, Murphy won the Texas State Men's Twirling Championship.
He played basketball for Norwalk High School, where he was All-State three times and All-America twice. He is a member of the Connecticut Coaches Association Hall of Fame and a Connecticut Sportswriters Gold Key Award winner. Norwalk High School's address is now 23 Calvin Murphy Rd. in his honor.
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Traded items with a signature of Calvin Murphy
The most expensive item with a signature of Calvin Murphy (CALVIN MURPHY AUTOGRAPHED 1970-71 TOPPS CARD #137 BECKETT 17089973 ROCKETS) was sold in November 2025 for £180.18 while the cheapest item (Houston Rockets CALVIN MURPHY Signed 4x6 Photo NBA BASKETBALL HOF AUTOGRAPH) found a new owner for £0.01 in November 2024. The month with the most items sold (10) was August 2025 with an average selling price of £51.41 for an autographed item of Calvin Murphy. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in November 2025 with £54.76 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.26 was October 2023. In average, an autographed item from Calvin Murphy is worth £32.39.
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