“Kelly Olynyk the Klynyk is the maaannn,” I heard my youngest son teasing his friends in his room over NBA 2K video games last summer.
“Yeah Kelly is a god,” one of his friends replied. “KO-41 baby!”
I asked my son later what all the ‘Olynyk’ talk was about, and he went on a rant about how #41 is his favorite number, Kelly is a superstar, and among their gang has almost cult-like legend status.
I was a little disappointed to hear the lack of reverence for the game of basketball from these kids. When I was growing up in the 80’s, we took our hoop heroes very seriously: MJ, Hakeem the Dream, Magic, Bird, Dr.