2026-27 projection
| GP | MPG | FG% (FGA) | FT% (FTA) | 3PM | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72 | 24 | .515 (8.8) | .755 (2.1) | 1.5 | 12.0 | 5.5 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 1.1 |
- Healthy-night role: 24 minutes — 20 at power forward and four as a small-ball center.
- 9-category: Overall range 90-135; points, rebounds, threes, and FG% can fit almost any build.
- Points leagues: Overall range 100-145; needs the projected starting workload to matter.
- Dynasty: Overall range 100-170 because a stable 25-plus-minute role would finally validate his per-minute production.
Projection logic
Mamukelashvili averaged 11.2 points, 4.9 rebounds, 1.9 assists, 0.8 steals, 0.5 blocks, and 1.4 threes in 21.9 minutes across 80 games in 2025-26, shooting .523 from the field. The projection scales those versatile rates into 24 minutes but applies mild efficiency and usage regression. His passing and shooting make him the cleanest offensive fit beside Walker Kessler, while Jarred Vanderbilt and bigger wing lineups remain credible alternatives. ESPN player statistics
The role is a desk inference, not a reported starting promise. The Lakers' July roster overhaul created a genuine power-forward opening, and contemporary reporting highlighted Mamukelashvili as one of four additions intended to reload the rotation. Los Angeles Times roster report
Correction 2026-07-18: base minutes cut from 26 to 24 and the counting line rescaled. The desk had priced only the Lakers Daily depth chart, which starts him at power forward; Yahoo's depth chart published after the Ziaire Williams signing instead lists Jake LaRavia first among power forwards and expects him to start. The starting path remains live, but it is now one of two branches rather than the base case, and two of his power-forward minutes move to LaRavia. Yahoo depth chart · Lakers Daily depth chart
Redraft, dynasty, and scenarios
- Median: 12 points, five and a half boards, and 1.5 threes with positive FG% in a low-turnover package.
- Ceiling: He holds the starting job, reaches 29 minutes, and flirts with top-75 value through 15/7/3 versatility.
- Floor: Defense pushes him behind Vanderbilt or Carr, leaving 18-20 minutes and waiver-wire value.
- Draft stance: A compelling final-round bet once the top 100 is gone; camp confirmation of a starting role would move him upward.
- Dynasty: Better as a speculative contender buy than as a foundational asset; he is entering the season at 27.
Confidence
- Roster: High — confirmed addition.
- Minutes/role: Medium-low — the starting assumption is unsettled.
- Rates/availability: High — 80 games provide a large, recent baseline.
Sources
Career record
Pre-NBA: Born in New York, raised in Tbilisi, Georgia; moved to Biella, Italy at 14 for high school, then Montverde Academy (Florida) in 2016. Seton Hall, 2017-18 through 2020-21. Averages climbed every year — 2.6 points and 1.9 rebounds as a freshman, 8.9 and 7.8 as a sophomore, 11.9 and 6.0 as a junior (several weeks lost to a wrist injury), then 17.5 points, 7.6 rebounds, and 3.2 assists as a senior on roughly .430/.340/.710 shooting. That senior year brought Big East co-Player of the Year (shared with Collin Gillespie and Jeremiah Robinson-Earl), first-team All-Big East, the Haggerty Award, and AP All-America honorable mention. Draft: 2021, second round, 54th overall by Indiana; draft rights traded to Milwaukee, where he signed a two-way deal on August 4, 2021.
| Season | Age | Team | GP | MPG | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | 3PM | FG% | FT% | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | 22 | MIL | 41 | 9.9 | 3.8 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | .496 | .818 | 0.4 |
| 2022-23 | 23 | MIL/SAS | 43 | 15.3 | 6.1 | 4.3 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | .422 | .684 | 0.8 |
| 2023-24 | 24 | SAS | 46 | 9.8 | 4.1 | 3.2 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | .471 | .735 | 0.4 |
| 2024-25 | 25 | SAS | 61 | 11.2 | 6.3 | 3.1 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.0 | .502 | .741 | 0.4 |
| 2025-26 | 26 | TOR | 80 | 21.9 | 11.2 | 4.9 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 1.4 | .523 | .747 | 0.8 |
| Career | 271 | 14.6 | 7.0 | 3.7 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.9 | .494 | .739 | 0.6 |
The 2022-23 split is the important one: 24 games in Milwaukee at 9.0 minutes (2.4 points, 2.3 rebounds) before he was waived on March 1, then 19 games in San Antonio at 23.3 minutes (10.8 points, 6.8 rebounds, 2.4 assists) after the Spurs claimed him on March 3. The two halves are not the same player, and the blended row understates what the Spurs actually saw.
Fantasy history: Not verifiable. No season-end 9-category rank for any of his five seasons could be confirmed from Basketball Monster, Hashtag, or ESPN Player Rater data, and estimating one from the box line alone would be a guess. What the raw line supports: 2025-26 is the only season with enough volume to have plausibly returned standard-league value, and its shape is friendly — positive FG% on real volume, 1.4 threes, 0.8 steals, and only 0.8 turnovers, with free-throw percentage roughly neutral. Blocks are the one dead category for a nominal big. The points-league shape is materially worse than the category shape: 11.2 points with modest rebounding and no block volume is thin for a per-game points format, and his category value leans on efficiency and low turnovers, which points leagues either ignore or reward weakly.
Durability: 41, 43, 46, 61, 80. The low totals through 2023-24 are not an injury record — he was on a two-way contract in Milwaukee with Wisconsin Herd assignments and frequent coach's decisions, and the 2022-23 total reflects a March waiver-and-claim rather than missed time. The trend from 61 to 80 tracks role, not health. In 2025-26 he missed two of Toronto's 82 games; the specific causes are not verified. Late in that season he was reported as a game-time question with left knee soreness and played through it, which is the only named issue on his record since a wrist injury cost him several weeks at Seton Hall in 2019-20. He has never had a multi-week NBA absence.
Trajectory: The arc is a role story, not a development story. His per-minute production has been roughly stable since the 2023 Spurs cameo — the 19-game San Antonio stretch at 23.3 minutes produced 10.8 points and 6.8 rebounds, which is close to what he did across a full 80 games at 21.9 minutes three years later. What actually changed in 2025-26 was the shot diet: 1.4 threes on a career-best .523 from the field, up from 0.5 as a rookie, meaning he stopped taking the mid-range shots that dragged the 2022-23 mark to .422. That is real improvement, not more minutes. The counterweight is that his rebounding rate fell as his minutes rose — 4.9 boards in 21.9 minutes is a lower rate than the 6.8 in 23.3 he posted in 2023 — which is what you would expect from a big playing more possessions at the four. He turns 27 during the 2026-27 season, so he is at the flat top of the curve with no leap left to price in; the entire case for him is the Lakers handing him 26 minutes rather than 22, and the four-year, $52 million contract suggests they intend to. Treat the 2025-26 line as his true rate and scale it, but do not expect the efficiency to hold if his usage climbs.
Career sources: ESPN career stats · StatMuse season-by-season · Wikipedia
Open questions
- Is Mamukelashvili the opening-night starter at power forward?
- Can he defend well enough beside Kessler to remain in closing lineups?