Muggsy Bogues: The NBA’s Short King 👑
If you didn’t know any better, you would think that it was impossible. But I got an opportunity to see it night in and night out. Mugsy was the smallest, fiercest player that I’ve ever seen. To be 5′ 3 and play in the NBA. Can’t tell you how big a heart has and how competitive he was. He was a pest defensively and he bothered people. There were so many players in the league that hated bringing the ball up the court against Mugsy. It’s not like you could say, “Oh, he’s little. We’re going to throw.” No, he was so little and strong, he’d root you out to, you know, 15 or 16 ft before you caught the ball and now you’re not in the post anymore. He would get into those trees and then the plays that he would make were phenomenal for a guy his size. To be a starting point guard for all those years, I think says a tremendous amount about about his competitiveness, his toughness, his competitive spirit. I mean, bigger than everyone’s. You were never going to punk mugs.
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I was introduced to the Muggsy Bogues experience at the world championship in 1986. The games were televised on German TV and the commentator took offence that the US fielded a player of that statue. He thought the US were taking the mickey. He was awesome. In the finals they played Yugoslavia against Dragan Petrovic, THE Dragan Petrovic. Muggsy defended Petrovic and shut him down. I never seen a player who weaponised being short on the basketball court. He was crouched deep outside of Petrovic‘s field of vision. You could see that Petrovic never encountered anything like it and did not figure out what to do. Watch that game. It‘s awesome.
He would mugs you when you came down the court 😅❤
My favorite pass was his three point alley oop
Muggsy was a great player and even better person. He came to my elementary school and made time for EVERY student
Dude could jump so high it was almost disappointing he couldn’t dunk lol
He owned a spot on the mon-stars
One of my favorite players
Tyrone "Mugsy" Boggs
there ain't ever gonna be another mugsy or spud again
Some player who knows how to play in the trees is going to take over the league one day
To me if Muggsy Bogues or Spud Webb had an extra foot in height they would easily be in everyone's top 10 list.
Muggsy Bogues and Spud Webb.
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Mugs is one of the greatest stories in NBA history. Think about it 5’3 and starter. Crazy
If you couldn't punk him how did jordan calling him a little bitc make him quit
Today nba do not favor small guys but donkeys shooting freely 3 points
SHIIII, JORDAN PUNKED HIM. BUT OUTSIDE OF THAT YEAH, YOU WASNT PUNKING MUGSY
When someone doesn't fit the archetype of a certain kind of athlete and yet still plays pro… Fear that person because they're there for a reason
TRUE Master of the Universe. Thank you kindly
Muggs disruptive skills and effort showed against the better offensive teams. Kept his team in many low scoring games.
If I see a guy 5'3 in the NBA, he got to be a monster
He broke my thumb with his dribble playing pickup at the Wake Forest gym.