Muggsy Bogues
Tyrone Curtis " Muggsy " Bogues ( born January 9, 1965 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA ) is a retired American professional basketball player who has 14 seasons in the NBA as long used point guard. He played throughout his career for four teams and had with the Charlotte Hornets the most success. From 3 August 2005 to January 2007, he was coach of the Charlotte Sting in the Women's National Basketball Association. Muggsy Bogues is with a height of 1.60 meters, the smallest player in NBA history.
Biography
Childhood and College / High School
Tyrone Curtis Bogues was born in 1965 in Baltimore. He attended Dunbar High School in Baltimore and played in the local basketball team along with David Wingate, Reggie Williams and Reggie Lewis, who as he later came to the NBA. In the following years, Bogues played successful basketball at Wake Forest University in Winston -Salem, North Carolina. In the first year of college, he scored an average of 11 points, 8 assists and 3 steals per game. A year later he was able to improve his average to 15 points, 9 assist and 2 steals per game.
In his second year of college at Wake Forest University, he stopped growing. The 1.60 meter small Bogues won in the college season 1986/87 the award " Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award" for the best college player under 1.70 meters tall.
NBA career
In 1987, Muggsy Bogues was drafted twelfth place from the Washington Bullets basketball team in the NBA. Bogues played on the side of Manute Bol, with 2.31 meters of one of the greatest NBA players of all time, and received by the audience and fans the nickname " Muggsy " ( engl. to mug - rob / steal ). How Bol Bogues had played before his rookie season with the Rhode Iceland Gulls in the United States Basketball League and there received a call to the First Team this league. In his rookie season, Bogues was able to achieve an average of 5.0 points, 5.1 assists, 1.6 steals and 1.7 rebounds.
On June 22, 1988 Bogues was taken Draft by the Charlotte Hornets in the expansion. After he moved to Charlotte ( North Carolina), he could improve his pass and Steal skills. In the 1989/90 season he was selected with an average of 9.4 points, 10.7 assists and 2 steals per game for the Hornets Player of the Year. Bogues was one of the most popular players in the league and his Hornets jersey with the number 1 was for many years a best-seller.
Bogues could produce a new club record with 170 steals in the 1991/92 season. In addition Bogues holds the Hornets record for most assists in a season ( 867 in 1989/90 season ) and a game ( 19). Muggsy Bogues is with 5,557 assists and 1,067 steals all-time leader of the Charlotte Hornets.
On July 11, 1997 Bogues was traded along with his Hornets teammates Tony Delk to the Golden State Warriors. In return, the 1.88-meter point guard BJ Armstrong came from the Golden State Warriors to the Charlotte Hornets. On 23 September 1999 he signed as a free agent a contract and changed for the 1999/2000 season to the Toronto Raptors.
Coach of the Charlotte Sting
Since his departure from the NBA in 2001 Bogues worked in the real estate field. From 3 August 2005 to the dissolution of the team in 2007, he was head coach of the Charlotte Sting in the Women's National Basketball Association. He has since worked for the Charlotte Bobcats as a team ambassador and radio announcer.
Media appearances
1996 Muggsy Bogues had a guest appearance in the sports movie Eddie. The film is about a fan (played by Whoopi Goldberg ), which is explained by a competition to coach the New York Knicks.
In the same year Bogues played in the animated film Space Jam with. In the movie the " Nerdlucks " the talent of five NBA stars (Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Larry Johnson, Shawn Bradley and Muggsy Bogues ) have stolen and now want to organize a basketball game against the " Looney Tunes". The main role in this fantasy film takes on the basketball legend Michael Jordan.