For the Jazz, forward Lauri Markkanen has missed the last three games with a lower back injury. Guard Jordan Clarkson missed their previous contest for left plantar fasciitis injury management.

About the time Lauri Markkanen was elevating over three defenders during ... In fact, at least part of the logic behind last fall’s Bojan Bogdanovic-for-Kelly Olynyk trade was that it would create ...

He was playing with legitimate NBA table-setters in Mike Conley Jr. and Kelly Olynyk ... efficiency today but makes Markkanen more lethal later, it’s worth it. The Jazz are also being quite ...

When thinking of reasons they could go over, two names stand out: Will Hardy and Lauri Markkanen ... After the Jazz traded away Kelly Olynyk, Simone Fontecchio, and Ochai Agbaji a season ago ...

Utah's ceiling likely depends on how well Clarkson and Lauri Markkanen play together ... Donovan Mitchell and Kelly Olynyk are the top three guys I played with who are good. Royce O'Neale is ...

Lauri Markkanen would be an ideal fit on one ... Toronto still would have Kelly Olynyk, Chris Boucher and rookie Jonathan Mogbo in its big-man rotation to fill the void left by Poeltl's departure.

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Factoring in length, more appropriate than Aldridge as an upside comparison are two players on opposite ends of the ambitious and realistic spectrums: Lauri Markkanen and Kelly Olynyk. Ambitiously, ...

The Jazz will be without All-Star forward Lauri Markkanen due to a right quad ... deadline last month including former Boston big man Kelly Olynyk. The Celtics are coming off two straight wins ...

Collin Sexton also scored 22 and Lauri Markkanen added 19 for Utah ... after they traded away mainstays Simone Fontecchio, Kelly Olynyk and Ochai Agbaji last week, primarily for draft assets.

The Toronto Raptors have acquired big man Kelly Olynyk from the ... 2022-23 season starting next to Lauri Markkanen (and at times Walker Kessler), Olynyk was shifted into a bench role with the ...