Andrew Michael Bogut was born on 28 November 1984 and is an Australian former basketball player who spent the majority of his professional career playing in the National Basketball Association.
50 Facts About Andrew Bogut
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Andrew Bogut earned All-NBA Third Team honors with the Bucks in 2010.
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Andrew Bogut was traded to the Golden State Warriors in 2012, and was named NBA All-Defensive Second Team in 2015, when he won an NBA championship with the Warriors.
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Andrew Bogut declared for the NBA draft, and became the first Australian to be the NBA's first overall pick.
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Andrew Bogut earned all-league honors in 2010 after averaging a career-high 15.9 points along with 10.2 rebounds per game.
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Andrew Bogut was traded to the Dallas Mavericks, where he played briefly before other short stints with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Los Angeles Lakers.
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Andrew Bogut then returned to the Kings for a second season before retiring in 2020.
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Andrew Bogut grew up playing Australian rules football and tennis in addition to basketball.
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Andrew Bogut's emergence began after he earned a roster spot with the Australian Institute of Sport in 2002.
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Andrew Bogut competed in the South East Australian Basketball League in 2002 and 2003, helping the AIS win the East Conference title in his first season.
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Andrew Bogut later joined the U-19 Australian junior national team, and was named the most valuable player of the 2003 FIBA Under-19 World Cup, in Greece, after leading the Emus to the title.
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Andrew Bogut ranked 19th in the NCAA in scoring, second in rebounding and eighth in field goal percentage, and led the Mountain West Conference in scoring, rebounding and field goal percentage.
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Andrew Bogut became one of 31 Utah players all-time to score 1,000 points in his career, but just the third to reach that mark in two seasons.
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Andrew Bogut earned Naismith College Player of the Year honours and the John R Wooden Award.
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Andrew Bogut later had his No 4 jersey retired by Utah.
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Andrew Bogut was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks with the first overall pick in the 2005 NBA draft, becoming the first Australian player and the second Utah player to be drafted number one overall.
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Andrew Bogut played in all 82 regular season games for the Bucks in his first season, averaging 9.4 points and 7.0 rebounds per game.
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Andrew Bogut started in 78 games for the Bucks, missing just four games through injury.
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On 3 April 2010, near the end of a breakout season, Andrew Bogut suffered a major injury.
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That night, in a game against the Phoenix Suns at the Bradley Center, Andrew Bogut had a chance to score on a fast break attempt.
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Andrew Bogut hung onto the rim for a brief moment to try to right himself but could not, and fell at an awkward angle.
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Andrew Bogut was linked to the Gold Coast Blaze, Adelaide 36ers and the team he supported when growing up, the Sydney Kings.
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Andrew Bogut returned on 28 January 2013, recording 12 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists and 4 blocks in a road win over the Toronto Raptors.
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On 2 May 2013, in Game 6 of the first round of the playoffs, Andrew Bogut recorded playoff career-highs of 14 points and 21 rebounds.
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Andrew Bogut became the first Warriors player with 20 playoff rebounds since Larry Smith had 23 on 12 May 1987 against the Los Angeles Lakers.
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On 25 October 2013, Andrew Bogut signed a three-year contract extension with the Warriors.
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On 7 July 2016, Andrew Bogut was traded, along with a future second-round pick, to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for a future conditional second-round pick.
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On 23 February 2017, Andrew Bogut was traded, along with Justin Anderson and a protected first-round pick, to the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for Nerlens Noel.
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On 2 March 2017, Andrew Bogut signed with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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Four days later, Andrew Bogut broke his left leg 56 seconds into his Cleveland debut.
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Andrew Bogut was ruled out for the remainder of the regular season and playoffs.
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On 19 September 2017, Andrew Bogut signed with the Los Angeles Lakers.
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Andrew Bogut did not return to the NBA that season in order to remain in Australia with his pregnant wife.
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On 24 April 2018, Andrew Bogut signed a two-year deal with the Sydney Kings of the Australian National Basketball League.
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Andrew Bogut was named the Best Defensive Player and earned All-NBL First Team honours.
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On 25 May 2020, Andrew Bogut announced that he would not be re-signing with the Kings.
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Andrew Bogut had two surgeries throughout 2020, one to remove a bone spur in his ankle and the other to help with sciatica in his lower back.
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On 1 December 2020, Andrew Bogut announced his retirement from basketball, citing numerous injury issues as the main reason.
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Andrew Bogut represented Australia again in the 2006 FIBA World Championship.
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Andrew Bogut averaged 12.8 points per game and 6.2 rebounds per game during the tournament, leading Australia in both categories.
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Andrew Bogut started for the Boomers at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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On 14 July 2015, Andrew Bogut was named in the Australian Boomers squad for their European tour and the 2015 FIBA Oceania Championship.
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In November and December 2016, on Twitter, Andrew Bogut made a series of tweets in which he implied he believed elements of the Pizzagate hoax were real.
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In 2021, via his Instagram account, Andrew Bogut posted conspiracy theories about coronavirus lockdowns.
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The lockdown, Victoria's sixth, prompted Andrew Bogut to vent his frustration due to Foodbank Victoria being closed because of concerns it was a coronavirus hotspot.
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Andrew Bogut believed that the lockdowns were already disproportionately affecting the working class.
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Andrew Bogut claimed in his post that he had been approached to promote public health measures for money but declined, further stating without significant evidence that many other unnamed Australian celebrities were supposedly being compensated for urging that the public adhere to pandemic control measures despite many celebrities not being subject to the same rules as the working class.
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Andrew Bogut then urged other celebrities to speak out for residents proclaiming "The silence was deafening".
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Andrew Bogut is involved with conspiracy theories against vaccines and COVID-19 safety protocols, often posting said content on his social media platforms.
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In January 2022, Andrew Bogut claimed on his social media that the Victorian government was attempting to 'silence him' after receiving a letter from the Victorian Electoral Commission over social media posts he had posted supporting the passing of a bill aimed at diminishing the pandemic powers of the government.