In the wake of their agreement with Gordon Hayward, the Celtics have started making moves to create cap room for Hayward’s maximum salary contract. That means that Boston has pulled Kelly Olynyk‘s qualifying offer, allowing him to become an unrestricted free agent, tweets Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.
Olynyk initially received a qualifying offer worth about $4.19MM from the Celtics in June. That offer didn’t lock the two sides into anything, but it made the 26-year-old center a restricted free agent, and created a $7.74MM cap hold on Boston’s cap. The Celtics need to clear that $7.74MM cap hold to help make space for Hayward, opening the door for Olynyk to sign outright with another team.
According to Wojnarowski (via Twitter), there will be a “strong” market for Olynyk, who averaged 9.0 PPG and 4.8 RPG in a part-time role for the Celtics last season. The seven-footer’s ability to make an outside shot (.368 career 3PT%) should appeal to several teams.
The Hawks and Pacers will be on the list of potential suitors for Olynyk, per Sam Amick of USA Today (Twitter link).
If anyone’s in the market for a cheap thug there you go.
Haha okay
I’d take him in Atlanta
Heat? Magic? OKC? Rockets?
Kevin Love is cool.
I’m gonna miss Olynyk. Low key, he did very well here. I wish him all the best.
Maybe he might be willing to come back on a team friendly 1 year deal to make us have a deep bench and help us go deep in the playoffs(not saying that we won’t go deep in the playoffs without him) but unfortunately I don’t see that happening, he will have an opportunity to start for some team and he should take that opportunity and run with it
If he was willing to do that he would’ve just accepted the QO.
if Minnesota has cap room he would fit perfect. they could use a stretch 4 and he is that since they were long rumored to be eyeing Lmarkenen in the draft had they stayed at 7 before they traded that pick in the J.Butler deal
Celtics need to trade some players away and try to get him back
It’s funny how everyone calls him a or the most dirtiest player in the game right now because of what happened with Love in one (ya it was bad) but D Green kicks people in the balls all the time and runs his mouth about everyone and lays down some hard fouls don’t believe me look it up the guys a scum bag but a hell of a player
Everyone calls draymond the dirtiest player in the game
There both dirty