Andrew Bogut

Andrew Bogut

Bogut with the Bucks
No. 6 – Milwaukee Bucks
Center
Personal information
Born	28 November 1984 (1984-11-28) Endeavour Hills, Melbourne, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Listed height	7 ft 0 in (2.13 m)
Listed weight	260 lb (118 kg)
Career information
College	Utah (2003–2005)
NBA Draft	2005 / Round: 1 / Pick: 1st overall
Selected by the Milwaukee Bucks
Pro career	2005–present
Career history
2005–present	Milwaukee Bucks
Career highlights and awards
NBA All-Rookie First Team (2006) All-NBA Third Team (2010) Oscar Robertson Trophy (2005) John R. Wooden Award (2005) Naismith College Player of the Year (2005) Consensus NCAA All-American First Team (2005) NBA Block Leader (2010-11)

Andrew Michael Bogut (born 28 November 1984) is an Australian professional basketball player. He plays for the Milwaukee Bucks of the United States' National Basketball Association.

Bogut was selected first overall by the Bucks in the 2005 NBA Draft. The 7-foot(2.13m), 260-pound(118kg) center was a star at the University of Utah for two years before declaring for the draft. Bogut is the first Australian player to be drafted number one overall. He was also the second Utah player to be drafted number one overall.

Early years

Bogut was born to Croatian immigrants Mišo and Ankica (née Jurišić) Bogut in the Melbourne suburb of Endeavour Hills. His father is from Osijek and his mother was a native of Karlovac. Bogut grew up playing Australian rules football and tennis in addition to basketball. In his childhood, he patterned his basketball game after Toni Kukoc. As a 15-year-old, he was cut from the Victoria junior state representative team. That experience apparently drove him to improve; he later went on to attend the Australian Institute of Sport, with whom he would tour the United States in 2001 and 2002. In his last season at AIS, he averaged 29 points, 14.5 rebounds and 2.7 blocks per game while competing in the SEABL. He went on to lead the Australian team that won the 2003 FIBA Junior World Championships, and was named the tournament MVP.

College years

As a freshman at Utah in 2003–04, he had 12.5 points and 9.9 rebounds, and was named Freshman of the Year in the Mountain West Conference. During the summer, he was a starter for the Boomers at the 2004 Athens Olympics, averaging 14.8 points, 8.8 rebounds, and 1.2 blocked shots and shooting 58.0% from the field.

As a sophomore, Bogut averaged 20.4 points, 12.2 rebounds (second in Division I), 2.3 assists, and 1.8 blocks, and shot 62.0% from the field (eighth in Division I). He also led Division I in double-doubles, with 26. After the 2004–05 NCAA season, Bogut was the leading vote-getter on the AP All-America team, earning Player of the Year honors from the Associated Press and ESPN.com, plus the Naismith and Wooden Awards.

NBA career

Bogut finished his rookie season with the Bucks averaging 9.4 ppg and 7.0 rpg. He was named to the 2005–06 All-Rookie First Team and finished third in votes for the 2006 NBA Rookie of the Year Award.

Bogut's sophomore season in the league was cut short after spraining his left foot and being put on the injured reserve for the final 15 games. He had previously played in 153 consecutive games. He showed improvement in his second year in the league as he averaged 12.3 points and 8.8 rebounds per game. Bogut is considered one of the best passing centers in the league, having averaged 3.0 assists per game in the 2006–07 season. In the 2007–08 NBA season the Australian center showed career highs in points (14.3), rebounds (9.8), blocks (1.7), steals (0.8) and minutes (34.9) per game. Also in 2007-08, Bogut started a career high 78 times. The low point of his second season in the NBA came when he made an obscene gesture towards a home fan after being ejected from a game for a flagrant foul against the Toronto Raptors at the Bradley Center. The move would cost him $25,000. On April 3, 2010, during a game against the Phoenix Suns in Milwaukee, Bogut suffered a major right elbow and hand injury after falling hard to the floor following a slam dunk. The next day the Bucks announced he had suffered a dislocated right elbow, broken right hand, and a wrist sprain. Bogut had been having a breakout 2009-2010 season, averaging 15.9 points, 10.3 rebounds, and 2.6 blocks per game (2nd in the League). He was named to the 2009–10 All-NBA Third Team following this breakout season and became the first Australian to earn All-NBA honours.

Career highs

• Points – 32 @ Dallas, 27 January 2010
• Field Goals Made – 14, 2 times
• Field Goals Attempted – 23 vs. Chicago, 8 January 2010
• Three Point Field Goals Made – 1 vs. Phoenix, 1 December 2006
• Three Point Field Goals Attempted – 1, 21 Times
• Free Throws Made – 9 vs. Chicago, 14 April 2008
• Free Throws Attempted – 16 vs. Orlando, 4 December 2010
• Offensive Rebounds – 10 vs. Detroit, 9 February 2010
• Defensive Rebounds – 20 vs. Miami, 7 January 2011
• Total Rebounds – 27 vs. Miami, 7 January 2011
• Assists – 8 vs. Toronto, 12 March 2007
• Steals – 4 vs. Cleveland, 1 January 2007
• Blocks – 7, 4 times
• Minutes Played – 50 @ New Orleans/Oklahoma City, 8 February 2007

International career

Bogut's international career began with Australia's 2003 Junior World Championship team. Bogut was the star of the side, averaging 26.2 PPG and 17 RPG, including a 35 point, 14 rebound performance against Lithuania in the Championship Game. Bogut was a starter for the Boomers at the 2004 Athens Olympics, averaging 14.8 points, 8.8 rebounds, and 1.2 blocked shots and shooting 58.0% from the field. He represented Australia again in the 2006 FIBA World Championship. Australia advanced to the Round of 16, before losing to the U.S.. Bogut averaged 12.8 points per game and 6.1 rebounds per game during the tournament, leading Australia in both categories. Bogut was a starter for the Boomers at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

NBL

During the 2011 NBA Lockout, Bogut expressed his desire to return home to Australia and play in the NBL during their 2011-12 season rather than sit on the sidelines (and in the process, forgo any higher paying contracts he could have easily earned in Europe). He was linked to the Gold Coast Blaze, Adelaide 36ers and the team he supported when growing up, the Sydney Kings. Ultimately he chose the Kings (who finished 9th and last in 2010-11), but the insurance to cover his remaining $39m contract with the Bucks could not be resolved, leaving the Kings and the NBL without his on-court services. Following the breakdown in contract negotiations over the insurance money Bogut stated he would like to join the Kings coaching staff in a bid to not only help the club but to help raise the profile of the NBL. With the NBA lockout resolved however, he returned to the Bucks.

NBA career statistics

Legend
GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game
BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game	Bold	Career high

Regular season

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2005–06	Milwaukee	82	77	28.6	.533	.000	.629	7.0	2.3	.6	.8	9.4
2006–07	Milwaukee	66	66	34.2	.553	.200	.577	8.8	3.0	.7	.5	12.3
2007–08	Milwaukee	78	78	34.9	.511	.000	.587	9.8	2.6	.8	1.7	14.3
2008–09	Milwaukee	36	33	31.2	.577	.000	.571	10.3	2.0	.6	1.0	11.7
2009–10	Milwaukee	69	69	32.3	.520	.000	.629	10.2	1.8	.6	2.5	15.9
2010–11	Milwaukee	65	65	35.3	.495	.000	.442	11.1	2.0	.7	2.6	12.8
Career		396	388	32.8	.525	.048	.574	9.4	2.3	.7	1.6	12.7

Playoffs

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2005–06	Milwaukee	5	5	34.4	.435	.000	.375	6.2	3.4	.6	.0	8.6
Career		5	5	34.4	.435	.000	.375	6.2	3.4	.6	.0	8.6

External links

• Video interview with Andrew Bogut @ fiba.com
• Andrew Bogut at NBA.com
• Andrew Bogut at Basketball-Reference.com
• Bogut Quotes
• 2005 College Player of the Year - The Oscar Robertson Trophy
• Andrew Bogut Profile
• Unofficial Andrew Bogut Site