Svi Mykhailiuk was the darling of Las Vegas Summer League, impressing everyone who watched the Los Angeles Lakers in the desert exhibition with a combination of shooting as hot as the temperatures outside the arena and more advanced than advertised supplementary skills.
The combination was enough to fully convince the Lakers they should select him, and it sounds like Mykhailiuk has continued to turn heads in scrimmages at the practice facility since.
On Lakers Media Day, Mike Trudell of Lakers.com asked Alex Caruso if “anything stood out to him” from those summer runs, and Caruso said it was the same person who blew everyone away in Las Vegas:
“I’ve been really impressed with Svi.