The Los Angeles Lakers have signed forward Sandro Mamukelashvili (ma-MOO-kell-osh-VEE-lee).
Mamukelashvili (6’9”, 240) appeared in 80 games (13 starts) for Toronto during the 2025-26 season, averaging career highs of 11.2 points and 21.9 minutes, along with 4.9 rebounds and 1.9 assists, while shooting 52.3 percent from the field and 38.9 percent from 3-point range. Born in New York and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, he scored in double figures a career-best 49 times last season, including seven 20-point performances. Mamukelashvili finished the season with 686 points off the bench, the seventh-most by a Raptors reserve in a single season in franchise history.
In 271 career regular season games (28 starts) across five NBA seasons with Toronto (2025-26), San Antonio (2023-25) and Milwaukee (2021-23), the 27-year-old has averaged 7.0 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1.2 assists in 14.6 minutes while shooting 49.4 percent from the field and 36.6 percent from 3-point range. He has also appeared in seven career playoff games.
Selected with the 54th overall pick in the 2021 NBA Draft by the Indiana Pacers before his draft rights were traded to Milwaukee, Mamukelashvili played four seasons at Seton Hall (2017-21), where he averaged 9.6 points, 5.7 rebounds and 1.6 assists in 115 games (79 starts). As a senior, he was named the 2021 Big East Player of the Year.
Mamukelashvili will wear No. 54 for the Purple and Gold.