Growing up, Muggsy Bogues was always told he should do something else, anything besides basketball. He never acknowledged his many doubters except to prove them spectacularly wrong. Twenty years after receiving his first basketball as a toddler, he stood proud-at five-foot-three-as the starting point guard for the Charlotte Hornets in the NBA. From the East Baltimore playground courts where he earned his nickname by "muggin'" opponents for possession of the ball, to Dunbar High School where he excelled alongside future NBA players, Bogues set the tone in his early years for the great heights he'd reach professionally.

Forewords / by Stephen Curry and Alonzo Mourning -- Introduction / by Jacob Uitti -- Thick Skin -- Friends For Life -- Famous Poets -- Life in the ACC -- Going for Gold -- The 1987 NBA Draft -- From the Beltway to the Queen City -- Creating a Culture -- Taking Flight -- Picking Up the Pieces -- Space Jam -- Injury and Recovery -- A New Scene -- The Lockout-Shortened Season -- Air Canada -- Grief -- Coach Muggsy -- What's Old Is New -- Perspective.