Trae Young will wear No. 3 with the Washington Wizards, according to a picture he posted Friday to his X account.<\/p>\n
The number was last worn by CJ McCollum, who was sent to the Atlanta Hawks alongside Corey Kispert as part of a trade that became official on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are excited to welcome Trae Young to the Washington Wizards,\u201d Wizards General Manager Will Dawkins said in a statement released Friday. \u201cIt is a rare opportunity to acquire a player of Trae\u2019s skill, accomplishments, and age. Trae plays an exciting brand of basketball and brings a level of confidence and competitiveness that has set him apart in this league.\u201d<\/p>\n
For those on jersey retirement watch: It\u2019s worth noting that while the Wizards have not allowed any player to wear John Wall\u2019s No. 2 jersey since his departure in 2020, two players \u2014 McCollum and now Young \u2014 have worn Bradley Beal\u2019s No. 3 jersey since his departure in 2023.<\/p>\n
The Wizards will hold an introductory press conference with Young and Dawkins at 6 p.m. tonight before Washington faces the New Orleans Pelicans at 7 p.m. at Capital One Arena.<\/p>\n
Young is listed as out for tonight\u2019s game with a right quad contusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trae Young will wear No. 3 with the Washington Wizards, according to a picture he posted Friday to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,6,682,468,15577,3892,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-529740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-washington","11":"tag-washington-wizards","12":"tag-washington-wizards-news","13":"tag-washingtonwizards","14":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115877244069147408","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529740","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=529740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}