{"id":450362,"date":"2025-07-09T07:58:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T05:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=450362"},"modified":"2025-07-09T07:58:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T05:58:51","slug":"san-antonio-spurs-acquire-kelly-olynyk-in-trade-with-wizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/san-antonio-spurs-acquire-kelly-olynyk-in-trade-with-wizards\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs acquire Kelly Olynyk in trade with Wizards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1437\" data-end=\"1670\">The <strong data-start=\"1456\" data-end=\"1478\">Washington Wizards<\/strong> are trading <strong data-start=\"1491\" data-end=\"1507\">Kelly Olynyk<\/strong> to the <strong data-start=\"1515\" data-end=\"1536\">San Antonio Spurs<\/strong> for <strong data-start=\"1541\" data-end=\"1573\">Malaki Branham, Blake Wesley<\/strong>, and a 2026 second-round pick. The pick will be the least favorable from Dallas, Philly, or OKC.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1672\" data-end=\"1876\">Olynyk adds shooting and experience (42% from three last season) to bolster depth behind <strong data-start=\"1761\" data-end=\"1782\">Victor Wembanyama<\/strong>, after the signing of Luke Kornet. The Wizards continue their rebuild with two young players.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1878\" data-end=\"2070\">Branham and Wesley, both 22 and 2022 draftees, bring athleticism and future upside to Washington\u2019s plans. Olynyk was previously acquired by the Wizards from New Orleans earlier this offseason.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Washington Wizards are trading Kelly Olynyk to the San Antonio Spurs for Malaki Branham, Blake Wesley and a 2026 second-round pick (least favorable of Dallas, Philadelphia, Oklahoma City), sources tell ESPN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JWiOF2nzq2\">pic.twitter.com\/JWiOF2nzq2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1942732972727362004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Olynyk heads to the San Antonio Spurs from the Washington Wizards in exchange for Branham, Wesley, and a second-round pick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":375602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-450362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/03\/San-Antonio-Spurs.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450362"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=450362"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=450362"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=450362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}