Muggsy Bogues Net Worth 2023 – Income, Salary, Career, Bio

Muggsy Bogues is a 57 years old former American basketball player, who has a net worth of a whopping $14 million. He is well recognized for being the shortest basketball player ever in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Muggsy is 5 feet 3 inches tall.

Apart from that, The player has earned a lot of fame during the 10 seasons that he played for the Charlotte Hornets. Moreover, Muggsy Bogues has played for many popular teams such as the Golden State Warriors, Washington Bullets, and Toronto Raptors.

After completing his career as a basketball player, he is a head coach now and serving for the Charlotte Sting of the WNBA. So without any delay, let’s quickly talk about the total Net Worth of Muggsy Bogues his source of income, earnings, family, assets, lifestyle, career, biography, and more.

Muggsy Bogues Net Worth:

Muggsy Bogues Net Worth is estimated to be around $14 Million in the US as of 2023. He already has earned a vast chunk of money through his profession as a basketball player. During his NBA career, Muggsy received more than $18 million through salaries.

Apart from that, The player has also endorsed many fitness brands and commercials such as Sprite, NBA 2K15, and NBA TV, in which Muggsy earned a good sum of money. He also has invested in many real estate properties since 2005, and due to that, his net worth is growing every year.

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Early Life:

Muggsy Bogues was born on January 9, 1965, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, He is 58 years old. His full name is Tyrone Curtis Muggsy Bogues. His father Richard was  5 ft 5 in tall while his mother Elaine was of a short height 4 ft 11 in.

Muggsy is the youngest of three older siblings. He spent his early life in the Lafayette Court housing projects, he faced many troubles in his childhood.

When Muggsy was 5 years old, he was hospitalized following being struck by stray buckshot. By the age of 12th years, Bogues saw his father being sentenced to jail for 20 years for armed robbery. In the same year, his older brother Chuckie started taking hard drugs.

Apart from that, Muggsy always wanted to become a professional basketball player and played basketball for the Dunbar Poets at Dunbar High School where he was given the nickname Muggsy.

College career:

Muggsy attended Dunbar High School in Baltimore, where he started playing basketball under the former head coach of the college of Maryland, Bob Wade.

In the beginning, he used to play with future NBA basketball players like Reggie Williams, David Wingate, and Reggie Lewis. Later he enrolled at Wake Forest University where he pursue his passion for 4 years and got an ordinary point of 11.3 points, and 8.4 assists.

In his senior year, he came up as Wake Forest’s most valuable athlete and got the Arnold Palmer Award. Muggsy Bogues began his journey as a professional player in the 1987 FIBA World Championship, where he played for the USA national team and contributed to the team’s gold medal finish.

Professional career:

He made around 8.4 assists per game and scored 22.4 percentage points during his one season. In the 1987 NBA draft, he was selected for 12th position by the Washington Bullets.

Muggsy Bogues performed his NBA debut on November 6, 1987, against the Atlanta Hawks. At the time his teammate Manute was the tallest member of the NBA and Muggsy was 16.5 inches shorter than the normal NBA player.

In 1988, he was swiped up by the Charlotte Hornets. As per some news, Muggsy had no problem with the Washington Bullets moving him unprotected in the draft, and even he was amazed to play with the Charlotte.

Bogues played ten seasons with the team as a starter and eventually, he became one of the top players of the Charlotte Hornets. He managed the team to the playoffs 3 times, in which he gained a lot of fans following across the world.

After playing in 6 following seasons he underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left knee, due to which he was placed on the injured list three separate times from 1995-to 1996.

Muggsy finished the season with only 14 points in 6 games also in the following he missed 17 games the next season. Because of his knee injury, his association with the team went downhill, eventually a week later, Muggsy was traded to the Golden State Warriors as a replacement for B.

He played his last game against Chicago Bulls on January 27, 2001. At the end of his last season, Muggsy Bogues was listed in NBA history for 12th all-time in assists and 13th all-time in assists per game.

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Personal Life:

During his Dunbar High School, Bogues met his wife, Kim, in 1984, they started dating together and had a daughter Brittney. In 1987, They decided to get married, and then they welcomes their son Ty.

Despite all of this, Muggsy Bogues also had a daughter Tyisha from his previous relationship when he was 17 years old. Due to some reason in 1997, the couple decided to get divorced. However, Bogues and Kim remarried in 2015.

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