Biography of muggsy bogues
Biography of muggsy bogues
Muggsy bogues high school team.
How 5’3″ Muggsy Bogues Became the Shortest Player in NBA History
“He was the type of kid that you couldn’t tell him no. He was always determined that he was going to be whatever he wanted to be.” – Sherron Bogues, sister of Muggsy Bogues
Few sports are as packed with physical giants as basketball.
Today, the average height of players in the NBA is 6 feet 6.58 inches.
There are plenty of players well over seven feet and the tallest NBA players of all time, Manute Bol and Gheorghe Muresan, were seven feet seven inches.
It’s a Goliath league without room for many Davids.
Which is why the odds-defying career of Tyrone Curtis ‘Muggsy’ Bogues is worth celebrating.
At five feet, three inches (1.60 meters), he is the shortest player in league history.
In fact, there have only ever been 26 players in the history of the NBA 5’9” or shorter. Just making it there was a testament to Muggsy’s heart.
Yet Bogues was so good he lasted 14 seasons in a lea