🏀 Autographed/Signed Muggsy Bogues Charlotte Hornets Purple Basketball Jersey — PSA/DNA COA — NBA's Shortest Player — 5 feet 3 inches — Baltimore, Maryland — Wake Forest University — Charlotte Hornets 1988-1997

🏀 Tyrone Curtis 'Muggsy' Bogues stands 5 feet 3 inches tall — making him the shortest player in the history of the National Basketball Association — and he played nine seasons for the Charlotte Hornets, defended guards who stood a full foot taller, ran point for one of the 1990s' most entertaining expansion franchises, and built a career that every coach who ever doubted his professional viability was forced to acknowledge as legitimate. This is the Charlotte Hornets purple basketball jersey signed by Muggsy Bogues and authenticated by PSA/DNA — a certified piece from a player whose career permanently redefined the physical parameters that the scouting apparatus uses to evaluate professional basketball prospects. Condition: NOS.

🌆 Baltimore, Maryland — Where the Story Begins

🌆 Muggsy Bogues was born on January 9, 1965, in Baltimore, Maryland — a city with a proud basketball tradition, a deeply competitive urban playground culture, and the kind of neighborhood environments where players develop the handle, the quickness, and the IQ that size alone cannot provide. Growing up in the Lafayette Courts housing projects in Baltimore, Bogues developed alongside Reggie Lewis and David Wingate — players who would also reach the NBA from the same Baltimore neighborhood, creating an extraordinary concentration of professional talent from a single community. From that Baltimore basketball culture, Bogues carried a style of play built on the complete mastery of the skills available to someone his size: dribbling, passing vision, defensive quickness, and an acceleration in the open court that separated him from every player he competed against. Condition: NOS.

🏆 Wake Forest University and the 1987 NBA Draft — 12th Overall

🏆 Bogues played college basketball at Wake Forest University — an ACC program in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where his production as a point guard was so exceptional and his defensive impact so measurable that he became a legitimate first-round NBA Draft prospect despite the physical attribute that every scout was required to document. The Washington Bullets selected Bogues 12th overall in the 1987 NBA Draft — a top-12 selection that validated every performance, every assist, every steal, every moment of open-court brilliance that Wake Forest opponents and ACC fans had witnessed across his college career. Being chosen in the lottery with the 12th pick means Bogues was evaluated as one of the twelve best professional prospects available in one of the deepest draft classes of the 1980s. Condition: NOS.

⭐ Charlotte Hornets 1988-1997 — Nine Seasons of Teal and Purple

⭐ The Charlotte Hornets were an NBA expansion franchise that began play in the 1988-89 season — a new team building a new fan base in the American Southeast, and Muggsy Bogues became the face of that franchise's personality as much as any star player the Hornets ever employed. Charlotte's teal and purple color scheme was one of the most visually distinctive brand identities in 1990s professional sports, and the purple jersey that Bogues wore across nine seasons in Charlotte represents the complete aesthetic of an era when the Hornets were drawing sellout crowds, developing loyal regional fan loyalty, and giving basketball the Southeast a team worth watching. Condition: NOS.

🏀🌟 Muggsy Bogues. Baltimore, Maryland. Wake Forest University. 1987 NBA Draft, 12th overall pick. Charlotte Hornets, 1988-1997. 5 feet 3 inches. NBA's shortest player. Nine seasons of pure basketball. Autographed Charlotte Hornets purple basketball jersey, PSA/DNA COA. Condition: NOS.