Although Trae Young is poised to make his Washington Wizards debut on Thursday, the team’s other recently acquired star still has a ways to go in his recovery.

Anthony Davis, out with ligament damage in his left hand, will be re-evaluated again in two weeks, the Wizards announced Thursday, hours before their home game against the Utah Jazz.

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The 32-year-old Davis was re-evaluated Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, per the team’s statement.

“He continues to progress as expected and has been cleared to begin limited individual on-court basketball activities,” the statement reads.

Davis hasn’t played since Jan. 8, when he injured his hand while defending Jazz forward Lauri Markkanen on a baseline drive.

At the time, the 10-time All-Star big man was playing for the Dallas Mavericks. But the Mavericks traded Davis to the Wizards as part of an eight-player deal ahead of the deadline last month.

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While reports initially surfaced suggesting that Davis would wait until next season to play his first game in a Wizards uniform, Washington general manager Will Dawkins told reporters early last month that he anticipated Davis suiting up before the end of the season.

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It turned out that Davis didn’t need surgery to repair his ligament damage after it was first reported that he was likely to undergo a procedure that would sideline him for several months.

This is just the latest injury in a string of setbacks Davis has suffered since the Los Angeles Lakers shipped him to Dallas as part of a three-team trade that delivered five-time All-NBA First Team guard Luka Dončić to L.A.

Following that shocking deal, the former No. 1 overall pick was healing up from an abdominal injury. He hurried back and instantly starred with a dominant first half on Feb. 8, 2025, against the Houston Rockets, but an adductor strain related to the injury he was recovering from spoiled his night.

He missed the following six weeks.

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Then, during an April 2 game versus the Hawks, Mavericks teammate Daniel Gafford accidentally elbowed Davis in his right eye. The injury ultimately required offseason surgery to repair a detached retina, and now Davis wears protective eyewear on the floor.

Five games into this season, on Oct. 29, Davis suffered a left calf strain versus the Indiana Pacers that kept him out 14 games after Mavericks owner Patrick Dumont reportedly delayed green-lighting the Kentucky product’s return until the team had medical data indicating Davis wasn’t at risk of aggravating the injury.

Davis came back in late November, only to then exit the Mavs’ Christmas Day game against the Golden State Warriors with right groin spasms.

Davis was back in the lineup on New Year’s Day, except a week later he picked up the hand injury that’s now dragging into his second month with the Wizards.