Svi Mykhailiuk's Top 5 Career Performances

The Boston Celtics continued to fill out their roster last week with the signing of veteran sharpshooter Svi Mykhailiuk. The 6-foot-7 Ukranian wing brings five years of NBA experience to Boston and is coming off his most efficient season thus far after shooting 42.4 percent from 3 while representing New York and Charlotte.

As the 26-year-old gets ready for his first season in green, let's take a look back at his Top 5 career performances to date.

Just seven games into his tenure with the Oklahoma City Thunder, Mykhailiuk produced a monster effort against the Toronto Raptors which included the second-best scoring effort of his career (at the time), a career-high in rebounds, and a career-high-tying mark in the blocks department. Acquired at the trade deadline one week prior, the third-year wing earned his second straight start with the Thunder and did not disappoint. Mykhailiuk shot 9-of-14 from the field, including 4-of-8 from 3-point range, in his highest-scoring effort in 14 months. He scored 10 of his team-high 22 points in the fourth quarter, fueling OKC to a 113-103 come-from-behind win. His nine boards contributed to a 64-35 rebounding advantage for OKC, and he added two blocks for good measure. Mykhailiuk nearly mirrored the effort three weeks later with a 20-point, nine-rebound performance at Indiana.  

Mykhailiuk has already had some success in his new home arena, most notably on Jan. 15, 2020, at TD Garden. Detroit's sophomore sharpshooter logged a then-career-high 21 points while making a still-standing career-high five 3-pointers. The Celtics weren’t just leaving him wide-open; Mykhailiuk was hitting shots off-balance, through contact, and in stepback fashion. He even canned a three-quarter-court buzzer-beater to close out the third quarter. On top of that, he handed out five assists and was turnover-free in nearly 30 minutes of action while leading the Pistons to a 116-103 win.  At least the Celtics no longer have to worry about being on the receiving end of one of such performances.

The best playmaking performance and most well-rounded overall effort of Mykhailiuk's career came toward the end of last season, and it also came against his former Thunder team. He stuffed the stat sheet for Charlotte with 18 points, a career-high eight assists, five rebounds, three steals, and two blocked shots in a thrilling, 137-134 win. Mykhailiuk went into distribution mode to help set up P.J. Washington for the best game of his career: a 43-point performance on 16-of-24 shooting from the field. Mykhailiuk was perfect in his facilitating, boasting an 8:0 assist-to-turnover ratio in over 36 minutes of action.

Just three days after producing his first 20-point effort – that game in Boston – Mykhailiuk logged his first-ever 25-point outing, this time in Atlanta. He was nearly perfect in the shooting department, making 4-of-4 from inside the arc, 5-of-7 from outside the arc, and 2-of-2 from the free-throw line. Generating nearly a point per minute off the bench, Mykhailiuk led the Pistons to a 136-103 drubbing of the Hawks. Those 46 total points on a combined 15-of-20 shooting against Boston and Atlanta are the most he's had over a two-game stretch in his career.

At this moment, Mykhailiuk is only four games removed from the highest-scoring effort of his career. On April 2, he poured in a team-high 26 points against the Raptors while shooting 10-of-17 from the field and matching his career high in 3-point makes with a 5-of-9 performance. Mykhailiuk also grabbed four rebounds, dished out five assists, and snagged two steals in over 33 minutes of action. The only negative was that his team was at the receiving end of a 20-point loss to the Raptors. Mykhailiuk was the only Hornets starter to score more than 15 points and they were outscored by 31 when he wasn’t on the floor. It was one of several strong outings he had toward the end of the 2022-23 campaign, which included a 25-point performance in Charlotte's penultimate game against Houston.