Muggsy Bogues Quotes & Trivia



Trivia

Bogues' NBA career highs include: 10 rebounds (against Detroit, on 3/25/94), 19 assists (3 times), 7 steals (3 times) and 2 blocks (against New Jersey, on 4/18/89).

He matched his career-high with 24 points against the Philadelphia 76ers on 12/17/96. After, he did that again twice.

Bogues won the "1986-87 Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award" as the nation's top college player under 6-feet tall.

Bogues played the playoffs four times, and averaged 9.4 points, 2.8 rebounds, 5.8 assists and 1.8 steals per game.

Bogues played for Washington Bullets (1987-1988), Charlotte Hornets (1988-1998), Golden State Warriors (1998-1999) and Toronto Raptors (1999-2001).

Muggsy Bogues was drafted 12th overall in the 1987 NBA Draft by the Washington Bullets, and was part of a draft class that also included David Robinson, Reggie Miller, Scottie Pippen and Kevin Johnson.

In his first year on NBA, Muggsy Bogues was teammate of Manute Bol, at the time the tallest player to have ever played in the NBA, who is 7'7" (2.31 m).

Bogues appeared in the movie "Space Jam" (1996) as one of the NBA players whose playing ability is stolen by the monsters.

In 1996, Bogues managed to block a shot and embarrass 7'0" (2.13 m) NBA great player Patrick Ewing.