Raptors delete first-round pick Collin Murray-Boyles’ mad expletive reaction

The NBA draft is supposed to be a special night for many of college basketball’s best athletes as they make the step to the professional level. Usually, they are excited whichever team selects them. For the 2025 NBA Draft, No. 9 pick Collin Murray-Boyles’ reaction went viral for the wrong reasons to the point where the Toronto Raptors edited it out of their video.

The 20-year-old out of the South Carolina Gamecocks is a native to Columbia, South Carolina. He’s a Southern boy. Now, he’s about to be a Northern one, as in the far North in Canada.

Collin Murray-Boyles did embrace girlfriend Chloe Kitts after being selected as the ninth pick by the Toronto Raptors. | Brad Penner-Imagn Images

When the Raptors picked him — which was a surprising pick by the way — Murray-Boyles was seen on camera dropping the F-bomb in disappointment.

Collin Murray-Boyles REALLY didn’t want to get drafted by the Raptors LMFAO

“F*CK”

😭😭

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— Hater Report (@HaterReport_) June 26, 2025

Yea, that’s not exactly the reaction the team that picks you wants to see. It was so noticeable that the Raptors scrubbed it from their draft video. Here’s the edited version.

The Raptors social media team edited out the part where this kid swore after getting picked by Toronto #nbadraft2025 https://t.co/IC74OgkP7D
— Avi B. (@avijustin) June 26, 2025

Not a good start to his Raptors career for young Murray-Boyles. Maybe diehard Raptors fan and rapper Drake can cheer him up and give him a big Canadian welcome.

Update: Murray-Boyles later spun it during an interview that it was a reaction of “disbelief.”

Cameras caught Collin Murray Boyles dropping an F-bomb when he was drafted. He clarifies: "Just disbelief. Toronto is the first team that I worked out for. What I said was not a bad thing. Just very thankful. That was a surreal moment. This organization has a good history"
— Josh Lewenberg (@JLew1050) June 26, 2025

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