Ukrainian basketball player Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk continues to show an impressive start to the season with the Utah Jazz, scoring 11 points in the game against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
This marks Mykhailiuk’s tenth straight game with the team this season, and the Jazz, along with him, have secured three wins. In previous meetings with his former team Detroit, the Ukrainian set a personal best by scoring 28 points.
How Sviatoslav performed in the game against Minnesota
The game ended with a Utah loss, 113-120. Mykhailiuk started in the starting five and played 28 minutes – the fourth-most this season. He scored 11 points, grabbed three rebounds and two assists, went 10 of 16 from the field and 3 of 11 from three-point range (27.3% shooting).
In scoring for the Jazz, he finished third: Keontae George with 27 points and Lauri Markkanen with 21.
What do these points mean? After the first ten games of the season, Mykhailiuk is averaging 9.1 points per game – the best start of his career.
In three different games, Sviatoslav scored at least 10 points, while in three other games he finished with nine. At the same time, he is 0.2 points above his last year’s personal best for the season start (8.9 points).
Mykhailiuk’s scoring average over his first 10 NBA games looks like this: 2018/19 (Lakers) – 2.2; 2019/20 (Detroit) – 3.9; 2020/21 (Detroit) – 7.9; 2021/22 (Toronto) – 8.7; 2022/23 (New York) – 1.6; 2023/24 (Boston) – 1.5; 2024/25 (Utah) – 8.9; 2025/26 (Utah) – 9.1.
The Jazz’s next game will be against Indiana Pacers on the night of Wednesday, November 12, with tip-off at 4:00 a.m. Kyiv time. After three straight losses, the team sits 12th in the Western Conference.