Muggsy Bogues

Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles

The Players' Tribune

Arts, Comedy, Sports

5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Baltimore’s finest joins the pod today, y’all! Q and D sit down with the iconic Muggsy Bogues to detail his journey from playing on one of the best high school hoops teams in history to becoming a trailblazing point guard in the NBA. Muggsy dives into the art of defense, his standing as an inspiration for smaller guards with NBA dreams, and his unique experience as an original member of the Charlotte Hornets. Tune in!

Growing up in Baltimore, high school ball with Reggie Williams, Reggie Lewis and David Wingate (2:30)
Nickname origin story, almost going to Seton Hall, his defensive prowess (7:40)
Talent in the ACC at that time, raising his draft stock with Scottie Pippen (19:40)
Washington Bullets, Charlotte Hornets (25:10)
Adding Larry Johnson and Alonzo Mourning, seeing Charlotte fall in love with the team (28:45)
Dethroning the Celtics, smaller PGs, building a franchise (33:15)
Watching the Currys grow up, coaching in the WNBA, Toronto’s evolution (45:15)

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0:00.0	Man, we appreciate you coming on the show, like, you're not only a fan favorite, you
0:05.5	want our favorites ever playing the game, so man, we appreciate having you.
0:09.8	And being in Charlotte, this is just a special thing to be down here and rocking with you.
0:14.8	I appreciate you guys having me on, man.
0:16.5	I'm a big fan of both of you guys, man.
0:18.2	I'm really proud of you guys and appreciate you guys that I'm thinking of me in this way.
0:21.6	Well, appreciate it, appreciate it.
0:23.4	When you first got to the league, who was the first person to bust your ass?
0:27.2	The first person that I considered was a challenge.
0:31.4	It had to be, it was magic because I was you know I was with
0:34.8	Washington bullets and my first preseason game we played the Lakers and yeah it was
0:41.2	it was in preseason and you know at that time it was eight pre-season games back then
0:45.7	Yeah, where we had practice twice a day two and a half three hours so those
0:50.2	You're there.
0:51.2	There was different times back then when they had the trash can over there,
0:53.5	wait for whoever had to throw up.
0:55.4	Yeah.
0:56.9	But magic, I say magic.
0:58.5	It was my first introduction to the Lee.
1:01.4	And they made the big comparison being him being 69 and I'm
1:04.8	being 5.3 and one thing I found out about magic it wasn't about him
1:08.4	scoring it was about his passing ability and one thing about me the guys knew I didn't want nobody helping me down on the
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