Andrew Bogut

Andrew Bogut is 7’0” center playing for the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks. Bogut was born in Melbourne, Australia and attended high school at the Australian Institute of Sport. Upon graduation Bogut committed to and played for the University of Utah. Putting together an impressive career, Bogut was selected with the first overrall pick by the Bucks in the 2005 NBA Draft.

Bogut was the consensus national player of the year for the 2004/05 season with the Utah Utes. He also became only the 11th player at Utah to make the Associated Press’s All-American team.

Bogut played for his native Australia in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. After going 3-2 in the preliminary round he helped Australia reach the quaterfinals of the Olympic games, where they eventually lost to Gold Medal winner Team USA.

Bogut is not married and has no children at the present time, but he does have two prized Siberian Huskies that he says he considers his children. http://www.nba.com/playerfile/andrew_bogut/bio.html

Bogut's 2009/10 season ended when he had surgery on April 4th for an array of injuries he suffered the night before. He was unable to appear in any of the postseason games for the Milwaukee Bucks

Bogut was well on his way to having his best overall season with the Milwaukee Bucks in 2009/10 before he suffered a season ending injury on April 3rd against the Phoenix Suns. Bogut hit the court hard and was rushed to the hospital with what was thought to be at least a dislocated elbow.http://www.nba.com/fantasy/fantasy_playernews.jsp?date=04/03/10&type=news#andrew_bogut

It later turned out that in addition to his dislocated elbow Bogut suffered a sprained wrist and a broken hand. He underwent surgery and it was announced that he would miss the rest of the regular season as well as any playoff games the Bucks played.http://www.nba.com/fantasy/fantasy_playernews.jsp?date=04/04/10&type=news#andrew_bogut

Before the injury, Bogut appeared in and started 69 games for the Bucks. He averaged 10.2 rebounds per game and set career highs in blocks per game, and points per game, with 2.5 and 15.9 respectively.http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/bogutan01.html

The 2008/09 season was Andrew Bogut’s fourth year with the Milwaukee Bucks Bogut was coming off a season in which he averaged a then career high 14.3 points per game.

Bogut managed to appear in just 36 games, starting 33 of those. On February 4th, Bogut suffered what is called an incomplete stress fracture in his lower back which caused him to miss more than eight weeks of the season.http://www.nba.com/fantasy/fantasy_playernews.jsp?date=02/04/09&type=news#andrew_bogut While Bogut managed to average more than 10 rebounds per game in his limited action, his 11.7 points per game were his lowest offensive output since his rookie seasonhttp://www.nba.com/playerfile/andrew_bogut/career_stats.html