Utah Jazz guard Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk has finished his season for the club. This happened after the club's last regular season game, against the Lakers, which the Ukrainian spent on the bench.
The first part of the 2025/26 season — the regular season — has ended in the National Basketball Association. All participants in the playoffs and play-in rounds have been determined, and the tournament grid has been formed.
NBA teams played 82 games during the regular season. Two Ukrainian basketball players also took part in the games: Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk and Maksym Shulga.
Only Shulga's Boston Celtics made it to the NBA playoffs, finishing second in the Eastern Conference standings. Mykhailiuk's Jazz, on the other hand, finished last in the Western Conference standings, winning only 22 of 82 games. At the same time, the Ukrainian's team improved its result compared to last year's regular season, when it won 17 games.
How did the regular season go for Svyatoslav Mykhailiuk?
- Mykhailiuk continued to play for the Utah Jazz in the 2025/26 season after joining the team in August 2024 when the Boston Celtics did not renew his contract.
- The beginning of the season for Mykhailiuk was the best in his career. The Ukrainian started in the starting five from the first match – in the opening game, Utah defeated the Clippers. As of mid-November, the basketball player had played ten consecutive matches for Utah.
- According to their results, Mykhailiuk set the best average performance in the NBA for his career at 9.1 points per game. In the first part of the season, Mykhailiuk also repeated his personal record in the NBA with two games with 20+ points in a season, which he set for the fourth time.
- In late December, the Ukrainian set an NBA career record for the most games in the starting five in a single season — he played 28 in a row, without missing a single one on the bench. In total, by the end of the season, the Ukrainian brought his record to 41 games in the start out of 50.