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As of 2021, Webb is tied with Mel Hirsch for being the third-shortest player in NBA history. Only two NBA players have been shorter than he is: 5-foot-3-inch (1.60 m) Muggsy Bogues and 5-foot-5-inch (1.65 m) Earl Boykins. [10]
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 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.
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.)
The movie 'Ant-Man' is about a small -- but powerful -- superhero, and he if he wasn't out saving the world he'd make one hell of a scrappy athlete. So, in honor of Paul Rudd's new role, we break ...
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.
At 5 feet 6 inches tall, he was the shortest player in NBA history until Muggsy Bogues more than 40 years later. He is the third shortest NBA player of all time , after Bogues and Earl Boykins . A stand-out player at Brooklyn College , Hirsch graduated in 1943 and served in the US Army Air Corps as a Navigator on C-47 aircraft in the 13th Troop ...
[6] After leaving the NBA, Bogues worked in the real estate business until August 3, 2005, when he was named head coach of the Charlotte Sting in the Women's National Basketball Association, despite a lack of coaching experience. He was shorter than all of his players—at 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m), Helen Darling was the shortest Sting player. Bogues ...