To return to main columns page, click 'column' button above. Fred Bowen's "The Score" column,
April 21, 2000, Washington Post Muggsy Bogues, Short and Sweet One of the most amazing athletes in the history of the National Basketball Association may be retiring soon. I'm not talking about Patrick Ewing, or Akeem "The Dream" Olajuwon or even Karl "The Mailman" Malone
I'm talking about Tyrone "Muggsy" Boguesthe 5-foot-3-inch, 35-year-old reserve point guard for the Toronto Raptors (and former point guard for the Washington Bullets, now called the Wizards). If you get the chance to catch a Raptors game, take it. It may be the last chance you get to see this guy. Bogues is the smallest player in the history of the NBA and a hero to kids who are so short they have to sit in the front row of the class picture. He grew up in Baltimore, went to Wake Forest and has now lasted 13 seasons in a sport where the average player is 16 inches taller and about 80 pounds heavier. This in a game where Nate Archibaldan NBA all-star in the 1970s and 1980swas called "Tiny." And he was 10 inches taller than Muggsy Bogues. Bogues has never been a star, but he has been a starter. He has gone nose-to-nosemake that nose-to-kneecapwith the greats: Jordan, Magic, Shaq, Iverson. | |
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