Svyatoslav scored 19 points in the match against "New Orleans".
Ukrainian Utah Jazz player Svyatoslav Mykhailiuk played his most productive game of the current season of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
The 27-year-old Cherkasy native scored 19 points in the match against New Orleans. This was Mykhailiuk's 15th game in the current NBA season.
The Ukrainian made 7/14 shots from the field, 4/10 three-pointers and 1/1 from the free throw line. In 26 minutes on the court, he also made four rebounds and 2 blocked shots.
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Only two players on the Ukrainian's team scored more points than him: Keyontae George (23 points) and Isaiah Collier (20).
For Mykhailiuk, this is the most productive game in the NBA since April 2024, when he managed to score 26 points in 37 minutes of a match against the Washington Wizards while still on the Boston Celtics.
Despite all of Svyatoslav's efforts, the match ended in defeat for the Utah Jazz in overtime – 119:123.
Match Review
Recall that Mykhailiuk joined the Utah Jazz in the summer of 2024. His previous club was the Boston Celtics, with whom Svyatoslav became the NBA champion for the first time in his career last season.
Mykhailiuk became only the second Ukrainian in history to win the NBA championship title. Previously, only Stanislav Medvedenko, who became a champion twice (2001, 2002) as part of the Los Angeles Lakers, had managed to do so.
