Muggsy Bogues

 Bogues was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in the Lafayette Court housing projects.His mother was 4 feet 11 inches (1.50 m) and his father 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m). He was the third of three siblings.Bogues's childhood was not without problems. At the age of five, when he was hit by stray buckshot , and had to be admitted to the hospital. This incident haunted him until his adulthood. Bogues was just twelve years old when his father was sentenced for the armed theft. The sentence was twenty-years in prison. His father was sentenced for twenty years in prison for armed robbery when Bogues was twelve years old. Since Bogues aspired to be dentist so he attended Baltimore's Dunbar High School which offered dental classes. Later, he was being coached at Dunbar by Bob Wade, the University of Maryland's head coach. He was a teammate with future NBA players Reggie Williams, David Wingate and Reggie Lewis (the latter two were in the class that graduated). The Dunbar Poets were 29-0 in Bogues's junior season and 31-0 in Bogues's senior year 1982-83. They were ranked the first by USA Today.