No, they are not related. No, they are not close friends. But yes, they know one another. And yes, they are sometimes confused for one another. How could there not be, when there's Bojan Bogdanovic playing for the Pacers and Bogdan Bogdanovic playing for Sacramento.
It figures to be the most unlikely potential case of mistaken identity to come to Bankers Life Fieldhouse on Tuesday when the two teams meet. There were two John Williams in the NBA at one time in the Nineties, Hot Rod and Hot Plate. Mark Jackson and Marc Jackson opposed one another as well in that decade.