  The Chebyshev potential of a K\"ahler potential on a projective variety,
introduced by Witt Nystr\"om, is a convex function defined on the Okounkov
body. It is a generalization of the symplectic potential of a torus-invariant
K\"ahler potential on a toric variety, introduced by Guillemin, that is a
convex function on the Delzant polytope. A folklore conjecture asserts that a
curve of Chebyshev potentials associated to a curve in the space of K\"ahler
potentials is linear in the time variable if and only if the latter curve is a
geodesic in the Mabuchi metric. This is classically true in the special toric
setting, and in general Witt Nystr\"om established the sufficiency. The goal of
this article is to disprove this conjecture. More generally, we characterize
the Fubini--Study geodesics for which the conjecture is true on projective
space. The proof involves explicitly solving the Monge--Amp\`ere equation
describing geodesics on the subspace of Fubini--Study metrics and computing
their Chebyshev potentials.
