Two-Way Player Capsule: Skylar Mays

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ABOUT SKYLAR MAYS:

Skylar will be among the more experienced players on the Remix's roster this season, having played in 67 NBA games across the last three seasons, including six with the Trail Blazers last year after signing a 10-day contract with the team.

Skylar is back in Portland for the 2023-24 season, as he signed a two-way contract with the Trail Blazers on Oct. 2.

He has made 11 starts in his NBA career, including starting all six games he played with Portland last year. He also boasts playoff experienced, appearing in nine postseason games when with the Atlanta Hawks in the 2021 and 2022 NBA Playoffs. He scored a postseason career-high of four points late in Game 4 of the 2021 Eastern Conference Finals against Milwaukee, and recorded a postseason career-high 6:41 of playing time in Game 2 of those Conference Finals.

With the Trail Blazers last season, Skylar recorded three of his six-highest career scoring games, including his top two (24 points on April 4 at Memphis and 21 points vs. Golden State on April 9). In addition to scoring a career-high 24 points on April 4 at Memphis, he shot 9-16 from the field and 4-6 from three, setting a career-high in field goals made and tying his career-high in three-pointers made. He also pulled down eight rebounds and made seven assists in the contest. … In all six of his games with the Trail Blazers last year, he recorded six or more assists and had seven or more in five games, nine or more in three and recorded a career-high of 12 on April 9 vs. Golden State. In 12 of his 67 career NBA games, he has scored in double figures, and has scored 15+ points five times and 20+ points three times.

The 2023-24 season be Skylar's third in the G League after spending most of last year with the Mexico City Capitanes and Delaware Blue Coats … The year prior, he played in eight games for the College Park Skyhawks while with Atlanta Hawks organization. Across 55 career G League games, Skylar has averaged 15.9 points, 4.2 rebounds, 4.7 assists and 1.2 steals.

Skylar closed out the 2022-23 season strong with Mexico City after moving into largely a starter role, averaging 19.2 points, 4.7 rebounds, 6.1 assists and just under one steal per game on 45.8% shooting from the field in his 16 contests with the Capitanes. It was a strong rebound from his time with Delaware earlier in the season, during which he averaged 10.9 points on just 38.2% shooting from the field. In his eight games with the College Park Skyhawks in 2021-22, Skylar averaged 18.0 points, 4.5 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 1.6 steals per game while shooting 45.6% from the field.

Skylar was selected 50th overall (second round) in the 2020 NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks and signed a two-way contract with the team upon being drafted out of LSU, where he played four years of college basketball from 2016-20.

He earned first team All-SEC honors in his senior year, where he averaged 16.7 points, 5.0 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.8 steals per game. Skylar started the last 69 games of his career and was named second team All-SEC his junior year in 2018-19.

Skylar starred off the court as well at LSU, as he was named back-to-back SEC Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2019 and 2020 while making the CoSIDA Academic All-America team and SEC Honor Roll each of his last three years in school.