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The Utah Jazz looked to improve their floor spacing by signing free agent Bojan Bogdanovic, leading to one of the season’s big experiments by a potential contender.

The 30-year-old is coming off a career year with the Indiana Pacers, averaging 18.0 points, 4.1 rebounds and 2.0 assists in 31.8 minutes per game and shooting 49.7 percent overall and 42.5 percent on 4.8 3-point attempts per games.

The shooting figures were both career-highs for Bogdanovic, who is entering his sixth NBA season after coming to the NBA in 2014 with the Brooklyn Nets, three years after he was the first pick of the second round in the 2011 NBA Draft.

The big question for Utah will be how well Bogdanovic can handle the defensive and rebounding responsibilities that come with a move from the 3 — where he’s played his entire career — to the 4.

He’s never had a total rebounding rate of better than 7.2 percent, which he achieved both last season and in 2016-17, when he split time between the Nets and Washington Wizards.

It was in his brief stint in Washington that Bogdanovic spent the most time at the 4, playing there about 55 percent of the time, according to Basketball-Reference’s position estimates.

The Wizards were 2.3 points per 100 possessions better, however, when Bogey was off the floor. So the jury is out whether the Jazz can function with the 6-foot-8, 216-pound Croatian.

Utah also has Jeff Green and playoff breakout artist Royce O’Neale that could go at the 4, plus combo big Ed Davis is also on the roster.

Will the Jazz be willing to sacrifice some defense to have more space for Donovan Mitchell to do his thing? That’s the big question in Salt Lake City.