The fact that Andrew Wiggins sucks isn’t exactly news. It is, however, a fun read.

But in the course of doing the research for that Wiggins article, I discovered something that simply has to merit mention in the Pacers-related portion of the programming around here.

Specifically, the fact that Bojan Bogdanovic‘s emergence as the leading scorer, defensive glue guy, and all around good egg for the Pacers over the past two seasons has been one of the unlikeliest career turnarounds possibly in the history of the league.

Consider Bojan’s 2015-16 season and his Big 5 advanced stats:

A 10.7 PER, .550 TS%, .021 WS/48, -3.4 BPM (including -2.9 on defense), and -0.8 VORP.

Over the past 5 seasons, that’s the 26th-worst PER, 11th-worst WS/48 (worse than four of Andrew Wiggins’ five garbage fires), 8th-worst DBPM, and 8th-worst VORP (worse than Wiggins’ worst season!) out of 516 players in the sample.

Sure, his True Shooting wasn’t bad—222 players have had worse years than Bojan’s .550 in the past five seasons while playing 2,000 or more minutes—but the rest of the stats clearly bear out the “this is Trevor Ariza, only if Ariza couldn’t guard my dead grandmother” nature of the stats.