The Washington Wizards released a statement on Thursday saying that Anthony Davis has not been cleared yet due to a hand injury, and the same goes for newly acquired point guard Trae Young, who is dealing with a knee injury.<\/p>\n
Davis\u2019 hand will be re-evaluated in two weeks, while Young will be out at least another week.<\/p>\n
Washington acquired Davis in a shocking move made at the NBA trade deadline<\/a> earlier this month, and Young was brought over from Atlanta<\/a> in January. Both players have been inactive since joining the Wizards, but they bring some form of hope to a fan base that has been starving for some time.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Wizards fans have been deprived of a certain level of star power over the past few years, watching their team come up short, having not qualified for the playoffs since the 2020-21 campaign. Bradley Beal was an All-Star that season and named third-team All-NBA. Beal also finished second in the NBA in scoring that year behind Stephen Curry, averaging 31.3 points per game.<\/p>\n That was also the last time Washington fans had an All-Star to call their own. So, bringing in two All-Star and All-NBA players within weeks of each other should be a cause for celebration in the nation’s capital. If Davis and Young can get on the court together in the foreseeable future, they could do some good things in Washington down the stretch of the season.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n In the Eastern Conference standings, Washington currently holds the worst record in the NBA at 14-39. Getting Davis and Young on the court could be entertaining if nothing else, which is just one of many things Washington has lacked for some time.<\/p>\n Washington is back in action on Thursday against the second-worst team in the east, Indiana, tipping off at 7:00 p.m. ET from Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Wizards released a statement on Thursday saying that Anthony Davis has not been cleared yet due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[495,676,7,3086,113,2546,6,573,494,682,468,3892,683,6855],"class_list":{"0":"post-612454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-anthony-davis","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-bradley-beal","12":"tag-indiana","13":"tag-marc-stein","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-stephen-curry","16":"tag-trae-young","17":"tag-washington","18":"tag-washington-wizards","19":"tag-washingtonwizards","20":"tag-wizards","21":"tag-wizards-fans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116099713048151453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612454","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=612454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}