Warriors had serious talks about acquiring Kelly Olynyk, Alex Caruso

Eric Koreen: Olynyk done for the night with a lower back strain. Ah, your 30’s. -via Twitter @ekoreen / February 14, 2024

But while we heard lots about the people the Warriors didn’t trade away, we hadn’t heard as many rumors about players they were targeting. But Tuesday brought a little nugget on that front. Speaking on his The Lowe Post podcast, ESPN’s Zach Lowe revealed that the Warriors made a run at two solid veterans: big man Kelly Olynyk and guard Alex Caruso. “They were pretty active at the trade deadline, from what I heard, in terms of buying,” Lowe said in a conversation with Steve Jones Jr. of The Dunker Spot. “They are operating like a team who’s like, ‘If we have Steph, we’re trying to win.’ They looked hard at Olynyk, I’m not quite sure what was going out in that deal. I actually heard it wasn’t Moses Moody. You’d think it was — I’m not sure that it was. Obviously it wasn’t Kuminga or Podziemski. Kuminga was a hard no from the start. Caruso — they would have loved to get Caruso from the Bulls, I just don’t think there was any common ground there. Those were the two names that I heard a lot of.” -via SB Nation / February 14, 2024

Kelly Olynyk: Thank You Utah 💜🎷🎵 pic.twitter.com/GgjeyrOBBY -via Twitter @KellyOlynyk / February 13, 2024

The Bulls, league sources say, wound up giving real consideration to trading Caruso on Deadline Day after insisting for weeks that they wouldn’t. But Chicago’s talks with Golden State ultimately collapsed and then the Bulls, league sources say, informed Philadelphia that they were keeping Andre Drummond, too, with the Sixers pressing to acquire the former All-Star center. -via marcstein.substack.com / February 20, 2024

KC Johnson: L2M report says that away-from-play foul on Alex Caruso that led to Donovan Mitchell FT and missed Okoro 3 should not have been called. Caruso was arguing that in the moment. -via Twitter @KCJHoop / February 15, 2024