Svi Mykhailiuk was raised in a Ukrainian city of 300,000, spent four years among the University of Kansas’ student population and will now look to make his name in the second-largest city in America.
But for the past two weeks, he turned heads in Las Vegas, not exactly someplace more inconspicuous.
“It’s a busy place,” Mykhailiuk said. “All these people, a lot of stuff going on. For me, it’s just basketball right now.”
It’s always been about basketball for Mykhailiuk, who grew up in Cherkasy — located in central Ukraine — for 17 years before earning his spot in the legendary program of the Kansas Jayhawks.