Name: SHORTEST In The NBA | Muggsy Bogues Incredible Story
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growing up in the city of Baltimore was challenging, you know, as a kid, you know, it was a lot of drug infested areas in our neighborhood, A lot of shooting, a lot of violence.

Unfortunately for me, at the age of five, you know, I got shot, you know, being outside, being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

You know, things gonna happen once you go outside the door.

And for me, you know, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

We went in this shed and grab his double barrel shotgun and just started firing into the crowd amongst all these kids.

And it's like I said, unfortunately, I was one of the kids that got hit.

No one felt like they had no one thought.

They have a life expectancies past 20 you know, And then, which was very strange, you know, knowing that that was the case.

But that was the mindset back then because I had a lot of guys at ah, young age dine, uh, mainly because, you know, they wanted that fast money.

They wanted to get into that world a lot sooner, And they wonder, Possibly take care of that family as well as want something good to tryto provide for that, you know, for their household.

So, you know, people did all sorts of things in terms of trying to make ends meet.

That was the neighborhood in the atmosphere that we grew up there.

Well, luckily that we had a game called basketball and sports sports was really a mechanism that kept us really at a safe, kept us where it gave us a safe haven place to really feel comfortable with football.

Had a lot of sports take place in the neighborhood.

So you had different neighborhoods, Uh, you know, competing against one another.

So there was a way of keeping us, you know, off the streets, keeping out mind, you know, active in other areas, as opposed to thinking about Hey, it's time to try toe over and get the feel of those quick dollars.

But sports was, uh, you know, it was a place where it really kept a lot of kids say, you know, at that time, I had no inkling or no idea that, you know, I want to pursue this as a career.

It was just something that I wanted to do many days and many nights going home, just crying to my mom and just telling them how cruel the kids are out there.

And you know how many they were, you know, And, uh, but she was always, you know, always quick to say that I had no idea what basketball was about.

But she was quick to say they know Thai was tied for her at the time.

You know, tired, they don't let them, you know, take your joy.

If you like playing basketball, you go out there and play, you know, no longer been expert in your life.

They don't know how big your heart or you know what?

You wanna play, you just go out there, play.

And at the time, I didn't know what that man I'm like.

But you know those things Then register at the time, you know, I just focus more or less on the kids being so mean and cruel towards me and because I was trying to pursue a game that they thought was meant for taller players saying Small got a lot of criticism from it, you know, a lot of backlash, a lot of name calling, you know, which could affect which confidence 53 was it.

You know, I knew that I wasn't gonna grow much taller up.

I was being taught by a gentleman by Leon Howard, who was the director of Direct Racial Center.

He took myself and Reggie Williams, who was blessed to going on play in the NBA.

Aziz, Well, one of the four guys come out of high school was fortunate to playing high play in the NBA, but he and I was a kid.

The game really change and slow down in my mind, and I started really believing that, you know, I could play this game one day, you know, possibly go to college.

A at the time, but it was thinking about possibly going to high school and getting a college education from it.

And it means to turn the narrative of my family's.

I just wanted to play basketball, you know, whichever way.

As it had been a Division two, I've probably been satisfied.

But knowing the type of kid that I wasn't who I was in the competitive type of person, I wanted it all.

You know, it wasn't just gonna satisfied, satisfied with what someone else had planned for me.

You know, I want to create my own destiny, and I start to understand that I was in position to do that.

And, you know, when I became 12 and 13 years old, you know, words never matter.

You know, It came in one day out the other.

I was on my path, trying to become this basketball player, that no one felt like he had any, you know, any opportunity to do so Because at the time, culture was still in the mindset of big are trying to break down those barriers, you know, trying toe break the mindsets of these coaching on that.

I know that, you know, I could be just as impactful, You know, as at this size and run your program just being be just as effective as a hologram.

You're short, you know, you need to be sitting on the curb which feet swinging off.

You know, we could put you in the drawer when we're traveling.

You know, growing up as a kid when they say sticks and stones may hurt your bones, the world with words will never hurt you.

So where is a very powerful, very powerful.

So the thing is about getting within yourself and understand who you are, Thio kind of, you know, walked off those negative comments that's coming toward you because your heart, you know it measure it pretty much.

Doesn't have a height to it, you know, pretty much set the tone of who you are and what you're able to accomplish, you know, And the height factor was the game of basketball.

So, you know, my heart was bigger than my height, so I didn't have no no second or no no hang ups on believing that I belong with, you know, the best of the best, you know, because my heart was just, you know, just as biggest.

There's that 12 pick and here in the Washington Bullets, selected Tyrone Muzi balls.

You know, basically a place in my backyard where I grew up Being from Baltimore, you know, the way that the world was lifted off the shoulders that day, You know, you felt like, Hey, you know, this is what you've been strong for for so long, and, well, it changed out complete narrative.

Uh, there he is now, the shortest player in the NBA way no longer was, you know, in the lower income bracket.

You know, I was fortunate enough, toe get my mama, You know, house, get out the projects and my dad and my sisters and my brothers.

And we was able Thio, you know, live a better life.

You know where it wasn't this challenging as it once was when you know, when they was growing up.

So, um so that was something that I was pretty much I was truly proud of that I was able to do that for our family and Andi have been very supportive.

So I was so thankful that I was in a position there to do that.

If you're 5 ft three, you're one out of seven billion.

There never been a guy your size who did it like that.

You know, as a kid, you know, you're not as strong you know as you are as an adult.

So when I was a kid, you know, those things was very hurtful.

And then, you know, that was very deterrent at the time, but it didn't distract.

Um, I think I was born this way, you know, with the idea to take on those type of challenges.

The face of the other things that happened happened to me in my life, allowed me toe reflect allowed me to, you know, to resonate who I am.

You know, those things became so clear in terms of Hey, I almost wasn't here, you know?

So why I have to worry about what someone else say That hurt me and deteriorate me from becoming who I wanna be.

You know, I remember early on when I used to go down on the court with my basketball and hearing all the words and having all the, you know, the criticism about me being short.

Um, but after I got shot, I remember going back down there and hearing those same criticism about myself, but they didn't have the same impact, you know, it went in one in and out, as I alluded to earlier.

So I think that has something to do with it.

You know, I had a lot to do with my mindset in terms of you know what I thought What I believe Oh, at virtually always prepare you.

You have to go through those things in orderto see the light at the end of the time.

You know, I don't think anything is gonna just be like this throughout your life.

You know, you have to go through that difficult, overcome obstacle because it is a testament of your character, who you are and how you have to deal with certain things.

You know, they get yourself back on that playing field, grateful that those ableto take place and still striving to be the best I could be and, you know, going forward Hopefully I can carry some kid to be the best they could be, you know, as a kid, you know, that's what I had to go through.

But keeping that positive message in my end, knowing that I can and knowing that, you know, no matter what anybody else thought I believe.

And that's what I want every kid to understand how to feel good about themselves.

When you look at that mirror and you look at that reflection back, not like yourself.

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