Watching Ochai Agbaji's surprising decline in the Raptors' 2025-26 campaign has been very strange. Last year, Agbaji started strong with a chip on his shoulder after looking like an afterthought during his initial Raptors stint in the 2023-24 season, where he seemed expendable unless he completely changed how he was perceived, and man, did he do just that in his breakout 2024-25 season.
Agbaji emerged as one of the league’s most underrated complementary pieces, transforming from a 21.7 percent three-point shooter in 2023-24 to nearly 40 percent in his breakout 2024-25 season, which quickly got the attention of NBA data watchers as a historic statistical surge.