Bogdanovic Scores Most Points by a Net Since Team Moved to Brooklyn

Brooklyn Nets guard Bojan Bogdanovic had 44 points in Tuesday's 131-114 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers, marking the most points any Nets player has scored since the team moved to Brooklyn in 2012, per NBA.com/Stats on Twitter.

Previously owning a career-best mark of just 28 points, the 26-year-old Croatian sharpshooter shockingly made 17 of his 27 field-goal attempts and four of his nine three-point tries in Tuesday's game, adding another six points on seven shots from the charity stripe.

He also rounded out his stat line with eight rebounds and two assists, though he did turn the ball over three times while playing a game-high 37 minutes.

The biggest surprise, other than his whopping point total, was the fact that Bogdanovic did so much of his damage on two-point shots.

Known largely as a three-point specialist, he has taken 268 of his 587 shots (45.7 percent) from three-point range this season, converting at an impressive 37.7 percent clip from beyond the arc.

He now owns one of the two 40-point performances by a foreign-born player in Nets history, with the other (also a 44-pointer) coming courtesy of a fellow Croatian, Drazen Petrovic, on Jan. 24, 1993, per NBA.com/Stats on Twitter.

Of course, while Bogdanovic's performance seemingly came out of nowhere in a season that's seen him average just 10.5 points per game, Petrovic averaged an impressive 22.3 points during the 1992-93 campaign.

Tragically, the 1992-93 season would be Petrovic's last, as his ascendancy to NBA superstardom was ended by a fatal car crash the following summer.