Andrew Michael Bogut is an Australian former professional basketball player. He was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks with the first overall pick in the 2005 NBA draft. He earned All-NBA Third Team honors with the Bucks in 2010. In 2012, he was traded to the Golden State Warriors, and was named NBA All-Defensive Second Team in 2015. In 2018, he returned to his home country to play for the Sydney Kings of the National Basketball League and won NBL MVP honours. He announced his retirement from basketball on 1 December 2020.
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Andrew Michael Bogut is an Australian former professional basketball player. He was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks with the first overall pick in the 2005 NBA draft. Bogut played college basketball for two years with the Utah Utes, and earned national player of the year honors in 2005. He earned All-NBA Third Team honors with the Bucks in 2010. In 2012, he was traded to the Golden State Warriors, and was named NBA All-Defensive Second Team in 2015, when he won an NBA championship with the Warriors. In 2018, he returned to his home country to play for the Sydney Kings of the National Basketball League and won NBL MVP honours. He announced his retirement from basketball on 1 December 2020. He has been credited for serving as a cornerstone of the Australian national team, for paving the way for an entire generation of Australian players in the NBA and in playing a leading role in re-vitalising the Australian NBL. He is the sixth-longest-serving member of the country’s national basketball team, having played 37 consecutive games in the last two years. He also earned Naismith College Player of the Year honours in 2004, 2005, and 2006. He became one of the 31 players to score 1,000 points in his career, but just the third to reach that mark in two seasons. His parents, Michael and Anne, had immigrated to Australia from Croatia in the 1970s. 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.
He competed in the South East Australian Basketball League in 2002 and 2003, helping the AIS win the East Conference title in his first season. He later joined the U-19 Australian junior national team. In 2003, Bogut was named the most valuable player of the 2003 FIBA Under-19 World Cup, 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 per game, and he shot 61 percent from the field and 74 percent from the free throw line. In 2008, he played briefly for the Dallas Mavericks, before other short stints with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Los Angeles Lakers. In 2010, he earned all-league honors in 2010 after averaging a career-high 15. 9 points along with 10. 2 rebounds per game. He helped the Warriors win an NBA-record 73 games in 2015–16. After returning to the Kings for a second season, he won the 2018–19 NBL season MVP accolade. In 2013, he became the 11th player to earn all-time All-America honours and earned first-team All-American and leading vote vote by the Associated Press and Associated Basketball Times. In 2014, he led the nation with 26 double-doubles and scored in double figures in the final two games of the 2003–04 season.
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