Dylan Murphy, who has spent the past eight years as a member of the Magic organization, is being hired by Michigan men’s basketball program as an assistant coach, reports Alejandro Zuniga of The Michigan Insider.

Murphy will be joining the staff of Mike Boynton Jr., who took over as head coach of the Wolverines when Dusty May was hired by the Mavericks. Boyton, who spent seven seasons as Oklahoma State’s head coach, was an assistant under May each of the past two seasons.

As Jason Beede of The Orlando Sentinel wrote a few years ago, Murphy has an unusual background as a coach. He got his start as a basketball blogger, then was hired by the Fort Wayne Mad Ants (now known as the Noblesville Boom) in the fall of 2013 and spent three years as an assistant with Indiana’s G league affiliate.

Murphy was hired by the Magic as a basketball operations analyst for the coaching staff in 2018 and was promoted to an assistant coach in 2020. In 2023, he took over as head coach of the Osceola Magic, Orlando’s affiliate club.

Osceola finished with the best regular season record in the NBAGL’s Eastern Conference in two of the past three years, Zuniga notes. Orlando’s affiliate team also advanced to the G League finals in 2025, eventually falling to the Stockton Kings.

Murphy finished third in the NBAGL’s Coach of the Year voting for the 2025/26 season. Now he’ll reportedly be joining the Wolverines as they look to defend their NCAA title.