College Bogues making a layup for the Wake Forest Demon Deaconsīogues attended Wake Forest University and played college basketball for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons for four years. īogues received scholarship offers to play college basketball for several schools including Virginia, Penn State and Seton Hall.
The Dunbar Poets finished the 1981–82 season at 29–0 during Bogues's junior year and finished 31–0 during his senior year in 1982–83, and were ranked first in the nation by USA Today. He was a teammate of future NBA players David Wingate, Reggie Williams and Reggie Lewis (the latter two of whom were in his graduating class). At Dunbar, he was coached by Bob Wade, later the head coach at the University of Maryland. Because Bogues aspired to be a dental technician, he transferred to Baltimore's Dunbar High School which offered healthcare classes. īogues initially attended and played basketball at Southern High School in Baltimore. As a child playing basketball on playgrounds, he was nicknamed "Muggsy" after a diminutive character from The Bowery Boys. In addition to basketball, Bogues was a standout wrestler and baseball player growing up. Around the same time, his brother Chuckie began using hard drugs. When Bogues was 12 years old, his father was sentenced to twenty years in prison for armed robbery. As a child, he witnessed a man get beaten to death with a baseball bat, a sight that haunted him into adulthood. At five years old, he was hit by stray buckshot in his neighborhood and had to be hospitalized. Early lifeīogues was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in the Lafayette Court housing projects. He blocked 39 shots throughout his NBA career, including one from 7-foot-tall Patrick Ewing. Despite standing at only 5 feet 3 inches, Bogues had a surprising defensive ability. After his NBA career, he served as head coach of the now-defunct Charlotte Sting of the WNBA. Bogues finished in the top seven in assists in six consecutive seasons ( 1989– 1995), and in the top ten in steals in three of those seasons. Although best known for his ten seasons with the Charlotte Hornets, he also played for the Washington Bullets, Golden State Warriors, and Toronto Raptors. The shortest player ever to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA), the 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) Bogues played point guard for four teams during his 14-season career in the NBA. Tyrone Curtis " Muggsy" Bogues (born January 9, 1965) is an American former basketball player.
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