Kansas senior guard Svi Mykhailiuk sent his best wishes to Josh Jackson and Frank Mason via Twitter on Friday, a day after his two former teammates were selected Nos. 4 and 34 overall in the 2017 NBA Draft.
“Congrats … big future ahead of yall!” 6-foot-8 Ukraine native Mykhailiuk tweeted from France, where Ukraine’s under-20 national team has spent the last couple of days playing exhibition games in advance of the European Championship U20 (Division A) tournament July 13-23 in Crete.
Mykhailiuk, who pulled his name out of consideration for the NBA Draft on May 24 in announcing he’d return to KU for his senior year, has been starting for his country’s U20 squad in four exhibitions vs.