SAN ANTONIO — Kelly Olynyk barely missed the cut. Still, he knows what a 7-foot generational talent looks like. "Seven footers are a lot more skilled than they used to be," the 34-year-old said on a public ESPN broadcast, speaking from experience.
Kelly Olynyk is excited to begin the next chapter of his NBA career with the San Antonio Spurs, especially as a new teammate of Victor Wembanyama. The Spurs acquired Olynyk in a trade with the Washington Wizards this summer.
In trading for Kelly Olynyk, the San Antonio Spurs did more than add another quality big man to support superstar Victor Wembanyama. They’re continuing a shift – and perhaps sending a signal to the NBA during free agency – toward rounding out a roster that intends to compete.
The San Antonio Spurs have been active in making upgrades to their roster this offseason. On Wednesday, the team officially announced that they had made a three-player trade with the Washington Wizards.
14 days after he was traded from the New Orleans Pelicans to the Washington Wizards, former Gonzaga All-American Kelly Olynyk was shipped to San Antonio for Malaki Branham, Blake Wesley, and a 2026 second round pick.
The San Antonio Spurs traded for center Kelly Olynyk Tuesday, a deal that gives them another shooting big man and closes the book on a big part of their disastrous trade of Derrick White.
For as inactive as the Washington Wizards have been in free agency, they've been busy in the trading game as any team in the league. They've made a variety
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Washington and Kelly Olynyk barely got to know one another, as the Wizards dealt the newly acquired big man to the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday, according to an ESPN report.
Two days after landing Kelly Olynyk in a three-team trade, the Washington Wizards are flipping the veteran big man to San Antonio, per ESPN’s Shams Charania.
Victor Wembanyama is no longer the only floor-spacing big on the San Antonio Spurs roster. The Spurs have acquired veteran center Kelly Olynyk in a trade with the Washington Wizards, Shams Charania of ESPN reported Tuesday.
As expected, the Wizards have rolled a pair of trade agreements with the Pelicans and Rockets into the same deal, officially completing the two deals as a single three-team transaction, per a press release from New Orleans.
After a 21-61 season, the New Orleans Pelicans fired their team president. A big trade Tuesday shows new GM Bryson Graham still believes in this Pelicans core.
The Pelicans shook up their roster on Tuesday when they agreed to send CJ McCollum, Kelly Olynyk and a second-round pick to the Wizards in exchange for Jordan Poole, Saddiq Bey and the No. 40 pick in this year's draft, per ESPN's Shams Charania.
The Pelicans are sacrificing some 2026 cap flexibility in the trade but will move a little further below next season’s luxury-tax line and get younger.
A pair of Pelicans players have undergone surgical procedures, according to the team, which put out a press release on Monday to provide updates on center Kelly Olynyk and wing Brandon Boston Jr.
More chatter continues to surround the Utah Jazz and veteran big man Kelly Olynyk. Despite the Jazz rattling off their recent six-game win streak to kick off 2024, it looks like the front office will not be sitting on their hands ahead of the February 8th trade deadline.
As the NBA trade deadline begins to get closer and closer, it makes for a good time to propose some hypothetical deals we could see happening during the middle of this season.
We now sit just over a month until the long-awaited NBA trade deadline hits, and the rumor mill keeps churning. Many teams around the league will be scavenging the market to find some late contributors to help their hopeful championship push across the coming weeks.