{"id":528852,"date":"2026-01-11T06:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T06:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/528852\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T06:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T06:44:12","slug":"aint-winning-st-channing-frye-delivers-cold-truth-on-trae-youngs-wizards-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/528852\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAin\u2019t Winning S**t\u201d: Channing Frye Delivers Cold Truth on Trae Young\u2019s Wizards Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-1\" class=\"data-event\">From one mediocre side to another, judging Trae Young\u2019s recent trade from the Atlanta Hawks to the Washington Wizards would be easy to judge that way. Atlanta has been a perennial play-in level team since their trip to the Conference Finals in 2021. The Wizards meanwhile, are currently last in the East.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-2\" class=\"data-event\">So, is there hope for a resurgence for the Wizards, now that Young, a generational talent and four-time All-Star will be on its roster? Channing Frye does not think so at all.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-3\" class=\"data-event\">On the\u00a0Road Trippin show, Frye acknowledged that getting Young was a great move for the Wizards, but alone, he does not have what it takes to turn the franchise into championship contenders overnight.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-4\" class=\"data-event\">\u00a0\u201cFor the Wizards, I think its great,\u201d the former NBA player began. \u201cYou put people in the stands [but] you ain\u2019t gonna win s**t. I mean it\u2019s the truth\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-5\" class=\"data-event\">\u201cThis isn\u2019t a championship move, this is to get a piece to build around. And you got to take a chance, and for the Wizards I think this is an A. Nobody wanted to play for the Wizards,\u201d Frye <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ocQq7Qjwi38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-utm_source=\"article\" data-utm_medium=\"content\" data-utm_campaign=\"link\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-6\" class=\"data-event\">Then, he spilled a cold hard truth. In all his years of being in the circles of the NBA, he\u2019s never heard of anyone wanting to be a player for the Wizards. \u201cThey\u2019ve had good teams\u2026 John Wall, draft. Bradley Beal, draft\u2026 but those teams were different, they were built through draft.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-7\" class=\"data-event\">Frye\u2019s assessment may seem harsh, but he makes sense. Young is a great player, but comes with obvious flaws and isn\u2019t a Luka Doncic-esque talent who can single-handedly win games. There\u2019s a reason Atlanta was languishing around the mid-table mark for years.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-8\" class=\"data-event\">But he did acknowledge that the Wizards would now be better than they were before. They won\u2019t be the worst team in the conference anymore, and this \u201cchange in scenery\u201d could very well kickstart a chain reaction of moves that gets other talents to Washington, as the Wizards look to be relevant in the championship conversations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From one mediocre side to another, judging Trae Young\u2019s recent trade from the Atlanta Hawks to the Washington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[208,7,6932,6,494,682,468,3892,683],"class_list":["post-528852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-wizards","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-basketball","tag-channing-frye","tag-nba","tag-trae-young","tag-washington","tag-washington-wizards","tag-washingtonwizards","tag-wizards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115875116925761848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}