Untrustworthy vote for 6th Man of the Year goes to an ex-Pistons player
The NBA awards season is approaching, and the Detroit Pistons are completely absent as usual.
The most questionable categories of a recent anonymous player’s poll are where you’ll have to look if you want to see some Pistons win awards. There, they’re well-represented in ways that truly highlight how awful this season was.
The next season, Cade Cunningham needs to play more games, as we were hoping he would at least sniff the Most Improved Player title.
Naz Reid, who was named 6th Man of the Year yesterday, was a deserving winner as Minnesota’s defense and depth saw improvements. Although no Pistons were nominated for the award, one former Detroit player received a suspicious vote, proving that NBA players aren’t the best spellers.
Bojan Bogdanovic, a former player for the Pistons, is the nominee for 6th Man of the Year. The complete results of the voting are as follows:
Bojan Bogdanovic, a former Piston, received one vote for third place if you scroll all the way down.
Considering that he started almost half of the games he participated in this season and struggled when he came off the bench, this seemed strange. Bogdanovic averaged 10.4 points per game on mediocre shooting splits in 29 games as a pinch player for the Knicks, a far cry from his Detroit numbers.
It’s obvious that someone mistook Atlanta’s Bogdan Bogdanovic, a shooting guard, for Bojan—which is simple enough to do if you’re not paying close attention. Bogdan finished fifth in the voting overall despite having a far more remarkable season, averaging just under 17 points per game.
Someone mistook the two Bogdanovics (what is the collective noun for a group of Bogdanovics?), depriving him of at least one third-place vote. I’m going with the word “watch,” which refers to nightingales, Croatia’s national bird; only one Bogdanovics deserves to be on the ballot, therefore I’m going with that.
The Detroit Pistons’ only chance to get a player on the awards ballot was through a spelling error.
