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Guard · 2022–24

Ochai Agbaji

A soccer-playing kid from Kansas City who grew nine inches in high school, Agbaji left Kansas a legend of the program: consensus first-team All-American, Big 12 Player of the Year, and Most Outstanding Player of the 2022 Final Four as the Jayhawks won it all. Cleveland drafted him 14th, then shipped him to Utah in the Donovan Mitchell trade before he ever played a game for the Cavaliers.

Two Jazz seasons brought a 28-point night against Denver. Toronto acquired him in February 2024, where he posted career-best numbers in 2024-25, and a three-team deal sent him to Brooklyn in February 2026.

HOW HE CAME & WENTCleveland took him 14th overall in 2022 and shipped him to Utah that September in the Donovan Mitchell trade. Averaging 5.4 points, he went to Toronto with Kelly Olynyk on February 8, 2024 for a first-round pick and two players.

Full name
Ochai Young Agbaji
Utah Jazz tenure
2022–24
Position
Guard
Born
2000, Milwaukee
Height
6′5″ (196 cm)
College
Kansas
Drafted
2022, 1st round (No. 14), Cleveland
Signature in the archive 2022-23 Panini Immaculate Rookie Patch RC 63/99 #134

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With the Jazz

OCHAI AGBAJI · 2022–24 · PER GAME
SEASONTEAMGMPGPPGRPGAPGSPGBPGFG%3P%FT%
2022–23UTA5920.57.92.11.10.30.3.427.355.812
2023–24UTA5119.75.42.50.90.50.6.426.331.750
JAZZ TOTAL2 SEASONS11020.16.72.21.00.40.4.427.346.798

Season by season, regular season, with this franchise only. More info: Basketball-Reference ↗  ·  Wikipedia ↗

Did you know

OCHAI AGBAJI · 7 NOTES
  • Both his parents played college basketball, and his father is Nigerian.
  • Grew nine inches between his freshman and junior years, yet drew no Power Five offers until his senior season.
  • Began his Kansas career as a redshirt on the scout team until injuries forced the Jayhawks to activate him mid-season.
  • A recruiting text from a Kansas assistant arrived in December of his senior year, and he ran to show his parents.
  • Bill Self drew up an alley-oop he had never practiced during his first game off the redshirt, and it worked.
  • When Kansas played his parents' alma mater Milwaukee in 2019, his father split the difference by wearing a Milwaukee hat with a KU jacket.
  • Scored a career-high 28 points for the Jazz in an April 2023 upset of the 52-win Denver Nuggets.