The leader of the Ukrainian national basketball team Svyatoslav Mikhailyuk, who reached the 1/8 finals of EuroBasket 2022 with the team, changed his club in the National Basketball Association (NBA), joining the Portland Trail Blazers as part of an exchange with the New York Knicks, ESPN reports.
Recall that the 25-year-old native of Cherkasy moved to the club from New York in September 2022 after being expelled from the Toronto Reptors. As part of the Knicks, the Ukrainian played only 13 games in the regular season (the last on January 21), spending an average of 3.1 minutes on the court and gaining 1.6 points.
Like New York, 1977 NBA champion Portland is in contention for the playoffs this season, sitting 10th in the Western Conference standings, qualifying for playoffs for a first-round spot. . If the Trail Blazers qualify for the playoffs, shooting guard Mykhailiuk could make his relegation debut.
Portland became the sixth team for Svyatoslav in the NBA. He previously played for the Los Angeles Lakers (2018), Detroit Pistons (2018-2021), Oklahoma City Thunder (2021), Toronto Reptors (2021-2022) and New York Nix” (2022-2023).
In terms of the number of seasons in the NBA, Mikhailyuk has already caught up with Kirill Fesenko, who played in the league from 2007 to 2012. Only Vitaliy Potapenko (11 seasons), Oleksiy Len (playing the 10th season) and Stanislav Medvedenko (7 seasons) spent the most in the strongest league in the world from Ukrainians.
Earlier reported that in the NBA match with the participation of Mikhailyuk’s team, there was an incredible rescue with “minus 9”.
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