Tyrone “Muggsy” Bogues Is Beyond Belief

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week we speak to NBA legend Muggsy Bogues and his co-author Jake Uitti about their new book, Muggsy: My Life from a Kid in the Projects to the Godfather of Small Ball. We talk to Muggsy about his life growing up in Baltimore, his near-death experience as a child, and what it was like to play in the ACC and NBA, dealing with doubters along the way.

We also have Choice Words about the continued detention of basketball superstar Brittney Griner in Russia– a travesty on so many accounts. We also have a Just Stand Up and Just Sit Down award to baseball players forcing ownership to come back to the table during the lockout, and to the vicious and greedy owners, for whom nothing is ever enough. There's a new Kaepernick Watch, too. All this and more on this week’s show!

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Muggsy Bogues

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron.
0:14.0	This week we are talking to a former NBA player who played 14 seasons in the league.
0:19.6	And now he's written his memoir.
0:21.3	His name is Tyrone Mugsy Boggs.
0:25.2	And his book Mugsy, My Life from a Kid in the Projects to the Godfather of Smallball is excellent.
0:32.2	We're going to be talking to Mugsy Boggs and his co-author, Jake Uidi.
0:37.0	Also, I've got some choice words about what's happening with Brittany Griner.
0:41.0	Just Stand Up and Just Sit Down Awards and more.
0:44.5	But first, let's talk to Jake Uidi and the legendary Mugsy Boggs.
0:53.3	So first and foremost, Mr. Boggs, I mean, may I call you Mugsy?
0:58.0	I don't even know.
0:58.6	Yes, please do.
0:59.8	Please do.
1:00.7	Okay, great.
1:01.6	That makes me so comfortable.
1:03.4	I just have to ask, first and foremost, what inspired you at this point in your life
1:07.7	to put a book together?
1:10.3	Well, I felt like it's been long enough to, in terms of me being away from the public,
1:15.8	being away from the game for 20 years.
1:20.1	And when I did my first book, my first autobiography in 94, it was mainly for when my pops
1:26.6	that passed away.
1:27.5	And it was kind of talking about, you know, the journey of being in the NBA and that sort of thing.
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