Former University of Kansas guard Svi Mykhailiuk will find out this NBA offseason if an impressive, 19-game season-ending tryout of sorts with the Charlotte Hornets has saved his pro hoops career.
“Free agency starts in July. I think I helped myself, showed I can play. I don’t know what is going to happen, but we’ll see,” Mykhailiuk, a 6-foot-7, 205-pound, 25-year-old native of Cherkasy, Ukraine, said in his recent season-ending “exit interview” with media members who cover the Hornets.
Mykhailiuk’s days as an NBA player appeared to be in serious jeopardy in February when he was traded from New York, where he averaged just 3.