{"id":635296,"date":"2026-03-02T22:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/635296\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T22:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:22:21","slug":"trae-young-to-make-wizards-debut-thursday-against-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/635296\/","title":{"rendered":"Trae Young to make Wizards debut Thursday against Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Washington Wizards guard Trae Young will make his Wizards debut Thursday against the Utah Jazz, per ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Young, 27, was acquired by Washington on Jan. 5 in a trade that sent CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert to the Atlanta Hawks. The All-Star guard had yet to appear for the Wizards as he nursed an MCL sprain and a quad contusion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Young had been \u201cramping up\u201d in recent weeks. And now, he\u2019ll make his home debut alongside Washington\u2019s young core of players with 25 games remaining this season. It\u2019ll mark his first game since Dec. 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s likely Young returns on a minutes restriction, as the Wizards have done with most of their premier players who returned from injury this season. But nonetheless, Washington\u2019s star guard will make his home debut at Capital One Arena in front of Wizards fans who have awaited his debut for several weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Young has a $49 million player option for the 2026-27 season. It was <a href=\"https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/p\/monday-best-the-latest-im-hearing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported Monday by TheSteinLine<\/a> that the expectation is Young and the Wizards agree on a multi-year contract extension this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Wizards guard Trae Young will make his Wizards debut Thursday against the Utah Jazz, per ESPN\u2019s Shams&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,423,6,422,427,3972,15577],"class_list":{"0":"post-635296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jazz","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-utah","12":"tag-utah-jazz","13":"tag-utahjazz","14":"tag-washington-wizards-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116161920784901296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635296","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=635296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}