Age: 22
Years Pro: 3
Status: Entering final year of rookie contract.
Key Stats: Averaged career-best 7 points and 3.5 rebounds over 50 games (16 starts). Shot 52 percent from field and 28.8 percent from 3-point range.
Opportunity has always been the operative word when it comes to Goga Bitadze's time in Indiana. For most of his three seasons with the Blue & Gold, the 18th overall pick in the 2019 NBA Draft has been stuck behind Domantas Sabonis and Myles Turner on the depth chart.
That finally changed in the second half of the 2021-22 season after the franchise dealt Sabonis to Sacramento in a blockbuster move at the trade deadline and as Turner sat out the second half of the season with a foot injury.