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Andrew Bogut: NBA Culture on the Skids
Published 6/18/2007 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... The Sydney Morning Herald's David Sygall quotes the former top overall pick on life in the NBA. It's not pretty. One of the more memorable passages: ...

Andrew Bogut: 'The Public's Image of NBA Players is True'
Published 6/19/2007 by Brett Edwards at FanHouse
Andrew Bogut is apparently not looking to make friends. There's a lengthy interview with the Milwaukee Bucks' big man in the Sydney Morning Herald , and in it Bogut sounds pretty critical of what he sees as the lifestyle of most of his fellow players. Here are some choice quotes form the article that leads with saying that Bogut remains a "modest all-Australian boy." "The public's image of NBA players is true. A lot of them get caught up in the hype and do video clips with rappers and all that crap. They want bling bling all over themselves and drive fast cars. But that's just the way the culture is in America - if you've got it flaunt it and if you don't, you can't." "I'm not into jewellery. I've got some earrings but they're not too expensive. There are guys who drop a hundred grand for a chain. The public's got it right - a lot of NBA stars are arrogant and li ...

Bogut on NBA and U.S. Culture
Published 6/24/2007 by dwil at Hoops Addict
... Who is the player? Andrew Bogut of the Milwaukee Bucks. The seven-foot center (12.3 ppg, 8.8 rpg, 3.0 apg) just completed his second season in the NBA as a starter. Bogut is back home in Australia for the summer and was the subject of a feature story by Sydney Morning Herald writer David Sygall. ...

Andrew Bogut Media Blackout: How the Truth Fails to Be Told
Published 6/26/2007 by dwil at The Starting Five
... Andrew Bogut spoke out in a Sydney Morning Herald newspaper feature by David Sygall on his perception of the state of America and it black NBA mirror. I included ...

Andrew Bogut Media Blackout: Crimes of Omission
Published 6/26/2007 by dwil at The Starting Five
... Andrew Bogut spoke out in a Sydney Morning Herald newspaper feature by David Sygall on his perception of the state of America and it black NBA mirror. I included ...

Bogut, Bling and the Surprising Lack of Media Coverage
Published 7/5/2007 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... Blinded by the giddiness of the NBA draft and impending free agency, we completely missed a significant story: in a wide-ranging interview, Milwaukee Bucks center Andrew Bogut trashed NBA players and the league’s culture for spending excessive amounts of dollars on material goods, cheating on their wives and being terrible role models. We can’t tell you enough how much we love candor from athletes, and this is a perfect example. ...

How I Spent My Summer Vacation: By Amare Stoudemire
Published 7/8/2007 by The Big Lead at FanHouse
... - to say the least - childhood. Now he's going back to get his degree? Nice. Increasingly, I'm becoming a huge Amare Stoudemire fan. Perhaps the Suns should trade for Andrew Bogut so that the Aussie can see the positive cultural side of American basketball players. ...

Andrew Bogut Backtracks
Published 10/10/2007 by Marcel Mutoni at SLAM Online
... in NBA history (the nasty rat tail, sadly, has been shelved), but the big Aussie planted his foot in his mouth by denouncing the NBA’s “bling-bling culture” in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald. The response, predictably, was not kind to Bogut. ...

Irritated Aussie
Published 3/28/2008 by ruffian96 at The Rogue Hour
... Bucks top guy. Scoff if you like but I quoted his numbers on the season above, and I think most fans will acknowledge that we are coming to the beginning of the end to the Michael Redd era in Milwaukee. I expect him to be involved in a trade by the end of next season, if only maybe to appease Bogut in a way (with the Bucks screwed in the salary cap game until the end of the decade a blockbuster Redd trade may be the only way to really shake up the roster). We've already heard about his opinion of the NBA lifestyle, and I seem to remember some incident earlier this year in a ...

Team USA vs. Germany
Published 11 days ago by Brandon Hoffman at ballerblogger.com
... players when he was in Shanghai and remembers “how one member of the Aussie federation said he believed the Americans were in “deep s—” because they hadn’t brought enough big men, weren’t shooting particularly well and seemed extremely overconfident.” I wonder if Australian center Andrew Bogut was the one who offered his opinion of Team USA’s lack of size and what he may perceive to be as overconfidence? Bogut has openly criticized American born players in the past. Team USA struggled with their outside ...