Muggsy Bogues was a one-of-a-kind NBA player. At 5’3” he was the smallest person in modern history to play in the league. However, his speed and basketball IQ allowed him to overcome whatever he lacked in stature to play in the NBA for 14 seasons.
Bogues' size was not the only adversity he had to overcome. He grew up in Baltimore as the population was on the decline and industry was leaving or had left. He saw the events that led to the drug epidemic which hit Baltimore and other U.S. cities. Drugs impacted his family as well.