Ex-Pistons player gets suspect vote for 6th Man of the Year

NBA awards season is upon us, and as usual, the Detroit Pistons aren’t involved at all. 

If you want to see some Pistons win awards, you’ll have to go to the most dubious categories of a recent anonymous player’s poll, where they are well represented in ways that reflect just how bad this season truly was. 

We were hoping Cade Cunningham would at least sniff the Most Improved Player award, but he didn’t play enough games, something that has to change next season. 

Yesterday, Naz Reid was named as 6th Man of the Year, a worthy recipient after Minnesota improved behind their depth and defense. There weren’t any Pistons named for the award, but there was one former Detroit player who got a suspect vote that shows NBA players aren’t the greatest spellers. 

Ex-Pistons player Bojan Bogdanovic for 6th Man of the Year 

Here are the full results of the 6th Man of the Year voting: 

If you look all the way down to the bottom, you’ll see that former Piston Bojan Bogdanovic received one third place vote. 

This seemed odd given that he started nearly half the games he played this season and wasn’t very good off the bench when he didn’t. Bogdanovic played 29 games off the bench for the Knicks, averaging 10.4 points per game on pedestrian shooting splits, all far below his numbers while in Detroit. 

This was clearly someone mistaking Bogdan Bogdanovic, the shooting guard from Atlanta, for Bojan, which is easy enough if you aren’t really paying attention. Bogdan had a far more impressive season, averaging just under 17 points per game and finishing 5th overall in the voting. 

He got robbed of at least one third-place vote, as someone mistook the two Bogdanovics (what is the collective noun for a group of Bogdanovics? I’m going with “watch” which is used to describe nightingales, the national bird of Croatia), leaving a watch of Bogdanovics on the ballot with only one deserving to be there. 

It took a spelling error for the Detroit Pistons to get a guy on the awards ballot, which is pretty much the only way any of their players were going to get there after the worst season in team history.