{"id":948448,"date":"2026-10-27T18:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948448\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T18:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:28:11","slug":"hornets-to-retire-muggsy-bogues-no-1-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948448\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets to retire Muggsy Bogues&#8217; No. 1 jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Charlotte Hornets on Feb. 11 are retiring the No. 1 jersey of Muggsy Bogues, the shortest player in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 5-foot-3 Bogues spent 10 of his 14 NBA seasons in Charlotte (1988-1998) and is the franchise leader in assists, steals and minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bogues, 61, has spent more than 20 years with the Hornets as a player and ambassador after initially joining the franchise in the 1988 expansion draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hornets owners Rick Schnall and Gabe Plotkin made the decision to retire Bogues&#8217; No. 1 to continue the organization&#8217;s connectivity with its history and legends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bogues is joining Bobby Phills (No. 13) and Dell Curry (No. 30) as the only three players to have their jerseys retired for the Hornets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Charlotte Hornets on Feb. 11 are retiring the No. 1 jersey of Muggsy Bogues, the shortest player&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,172323,459,82],"class_list":["post-948448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-charlotte-hornets-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-5312","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}