🏀 NBA Player of the Day 11/28/2017 🏀

Andrew Bogut

Born	11/28/1984
AGE	33 years
FROM	Utah
NBA DEBUT	2005
YEARS IN NBA	12
CURRENT TEAM	LAL 2017-18
POSITION	Center

Player Profile

Though he was born and raised in Melbourne, Bogut's parents, Michael and Anne, are Croatians who immigrated to Australia from SFR Yugoslavia in the 1970s. Bogut grew up playing Australian rules football and tennis in addition to basketball.

As a child, he patterned his basketball game after Toni Kukoč, a Croatian NBA player who spent the majority of the 1990s playing for the Chicago Bulls. As a 15-year-old, he was cut from the Victoria junior state representative team. In response to this setback, Bogut began to improve his game with the help of Siniša Marković, a professional basketballer from Yugoslavia.

Bogut's emergence on the international basketball stage began after he earned a roster spot with the Australian Institute of Sport, which toured the United States in November 2001 and 2002. Then he competed in the South East Australian Basketball League in 2003, averaging 22 points, 14.5 rebounds and 2.7 blocked shots in 31 minutes per game. He later joined the U-19 Australian national team and was named most valuable player of the 2003 FIBA Junior World Championships in Greece after leading the Emus to the title. In eight games, he averaged 26.3 points, 17 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.5 blocks and shot 61 percent from the field and 74 percent from the free throw line.

One of the highlights of his MVP conquest was a 22-point, 18-rebound performance in a 106–85 win over the USA in the quarter-finals of the medal round. Ref: Wikipedia-Bogut

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