Former Purdue Boilermaker and No. 5 overall pick Jaden Ivey has been everything the Detroit Pistons could have hoped for through the first 23 games of his rookie season.
The 6-foot-4 guard is averaging 15.5 points per game, good for 3rd amongst all rookies behind only No. 1 overall pick Paolo Banchero and Indiana Pacers guard Bennedict Mathurin.
If you want to apply some deeper looking metrics to his scoring, via cerebro.com, he again comes in 3rd (behind Banchero and Mathurin) in their overall point scoring prowess metric.
That scoring mark also puts Ivey second on the Detroit Pistons in points per game behind Bojan Bogdanovic if you omit Cade Cunningham who has now missed the majority of the season so far and doesn’t appear close to returning to the lineup.