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The most seasons played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) by a player listed at 5 feet 6 inches (168 cm) or shorter was 14 seasons by Muggsy Bogues who played from 1987 to 2001. The shortest player ever in the old American Basketball Association (1967–76) was Penny Ann Early , a 5-foot-3-inch (160 cm) jockey who took part in one ...
Bogues made his NBA debut on November 6, 1987, against the Atlanta Hawks at Omni Coliseum; he started and led the team in assists. [23] At the time of his debut, he was 16.5 inches (42 cm) shorter than the average NBA player. [4] In his rookie year, Bogues was a teammate of Manute Bol who stood 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) tall. They were the tallest and ...
Most scouts predicted that Webb would end up playing in either Europe or for the Harlem Globetrotters because of his height [2] (5 ft 6 in (168 cm)). [6] However, Webb was drafted in the 4th round of the 1985 NBA draft by the Detroit Pistons. After the guard-loaded Pistons released Webb before the preseason even started, his agent, Bill ...
Bogues has held the title ever since. In a hilarious coincidence, the point guard famously played along side the tallest player in NBA history (tied 1st) in his rookie season.
Bogues is making the media rounds to promote Charlotte as the host of this year's All-Star Game on Feb. 17 and was kind enough to carve out time for Yahoo Sports. Muggsy Bogues names his All-Time ...
A board foot is a United States and Canadian unit of approximate volume, used for lumber. It is equivalent to 1 inch × 1 foot × 1 foot (144 cu in or 2,360 cm 3). It is also found in the unit of density pounds per board foot. In Australia and New Zealand the terms super foot or superficial foot were formerly used for this unit. The exact ...
In the USBL draft, the Gulls drafted 5-foot-3 Muggsy Bogues second overall. Bogues was named the league's Rookie of the Year, averaging 22.2 points and 8.4 assists per game and leading the league in minutes per game before an ankle injury ended his season. (Hank McDowell was also named to the USBL's second All-Star squad.)
In the Zork series of games, the Great Underground Empire has its own system of measurements, the most frequently referenced of which is the bloit. Defined as the distance the king's favorite pet can run in one hour (spoofing a popular legend about the history of the foot), the length of the bloit varies dramatically, but the one canonical conversion to real-world units puts it at ...