Tyrone Curtis "Muggsy" Bogues was born on January 9,1965 and is an American former basketball player.
45 Facts About Muggsy Bogues
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Muggsy Bogues finished in the top seven in assists in six consecutive seasons, and in the top ten in steals in three of those seasons.
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Muggsy Bogues was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in the Lafayette Court housing projects.
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When Muggsy Bogues was 12 years old, his father was sentenced to twenty years in prison for armed robbery.
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Muggsy Bogues initially attended and played basketball at Southern High School in Baltimore.
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Muggsy Bogues was a teammate of future NBA players David Wingate, Reggie Williams and Reggie Lewis.
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Muggsy Bogues received scholarship offers to play college basketball for several schools including Virginia, Penn State and Seton Hall.
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Muggsy Bogues attended Wake Forest University and played college basketball for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons for four years.
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Muggsy Bogues averaged 11.3 points, 8.4 assists and 3.1 steals per game in his junior year.
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Muggsy Bogues followed with a senior campaign in which he averaged 14.8 points, 9.5 assists, 3.8 rebounds and 2.4 steals per game.
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Muggsy Bogues played for the USA national team in the 1986 FIBA World Championship and won the gold medal.
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Under head coach Lute Olson, Muggsy Bogues played in all ten of the team's games and led them in assists and steals.
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Muggsy Bogues was selected second overall in the 1987 United States Basketball League draft by the Rhode Island Gulls.
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Muggsy Bogues was a fan favorite in the USBL and the Gulls led the league in attendance.
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Muggsy Bogues was drafted twelfth overall in the 1987 NBA draft by the Washington Bullets, and was part of a talent-laden draft class that included David Robinson, Reggie Miller, Scottie Pippen, and Kevin Johnson.
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Muggsy Bogues made his NBA debut on November 6,1987, against the Atlanta Hawks at Omni Coliseum; he started and led the team in assists.
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Muggsy Bogues's playing time dropped dramatically when coach Kevin Loughery was fired and replaced with Wes Unseld.
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Muggsy Bogues told the Washington Post that he had "no quarrel" with the Bullets for leaving him unprotected and his agents reported that he was excited to start anew in Charlotte.
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Harter was fired during the following season and Muggsy Bogues began to flourish in the up-tempo offenses run by his successors, Gene Littles and Allan Bristow.
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Muggsy Bogues went on to play parts of ten seasons with the Hornets, spending the vast majority of his time as a starter and becoming one of the faces of the Hornets alongside Alonzo Mourning and Larry Johnson.
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Muggsy Bogues finished the season with only fourteen points in six games.
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Muggsy Bogues returned to action in earnest the following season but missed 17 games and his production had dropped off slightly across the board.
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Muggsy Bogues appeared in 36 games in the lockout-shortened following season, missing time due to hamstring and knee injuries as well as chickenpox.
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Muggsy Bogues was included in the trade for salary cap reasons and never reported to New York during his stint with them.
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In July 2002, Muggsy Bogues told The Baltimore Sun that he had not retired and was still hoping to play again.
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On March 18,2014, Muggsy Bogues was named the Charlotte Hornets' Ambassador, participating in the team's rebranding.
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In January 2020, Muggsy Bogues was announced as an inductee to the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame.
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Muggsy Bogues met his wife, Kim, in 1984 at a Dunbar High School alumni game.
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Muggsy Bogues had a daughter named Tyisha from an earlier relationship when he was 17 years old.
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Muggsy Bogues met Sharon Smith at Dell Curry's retirement party in 2003 and the couple dated for five years before Smith died of breast cancer in July 2008.
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Muggsy Bogues played second base and was hitless in both of his at bats.
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Muggsy Bogues had been released early from prison but had resumed using drugs, often with Bogues's brother, Chuckie.
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In 1995, Muggsy Bogues moved his oldest brother, Chuckie, into his home to help him battle drug addiction while Muggsy Bogues himself rehabbed from knee surgery.
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When Muggsy Bogues left Wake Forest in 1987, he was 19 credits short of a degree.
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Muggsy Bogues finished his classes by correspondence and received a Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communications in May 1998.
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Muggsy Bogues's grandson, Samartine, is a youth basketball player who received media attention for his play while still in elementary school and received his first college basketball scholarship offer in 2020 while still a high school freshman.
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Muggsy Bogues appeared in the movie Space Jam, as one of five NBA players whose playing ability is stolen by the villainous Monstars.
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Muggsy Bogues had a cameo appearance in the movie Juwanna Mann.
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Muggsy Bogues made a cameo appearance in TV series Curb Your Enthusiasm as himself, sharing a restroom with Larry David and Richard Lewis and nearly having an altercation with David after catching them looking at his penis while urinating.
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In 1996, Muggsy Bogues had a cameo at the end of Eddie in which Whoopi Goldberg's character flirts with him.
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Muggsy Bogues made a cameo appearance on an episode of Saturday Night Live with Charles Barkley hosting and Nirvana the musical guest.
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Muggsy Bogues appeared in an episode of Hang Time where he spoke against steroids.
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Muggsy Bogues appeared in "Rebound", the first episode of season 7 of Royal Pains, in which he attended a welcoming party hosted by Ms.
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Muggsy Bogues was interviewed for Baltimore Boys, an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary that highlighted the Dunbar Poets high school basketball team.
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In 2019, Muggsy Bogues appeared in a series of commercials for the web hosting company GoDaddy.