{"id":635582,"date":"2026-03-03T01:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/635582\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T01:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:20:21","slug":"all-star-guard-trae-young-to-make-wizards-debut-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/635582\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Star guard Trae Young to make Wizards debut Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2083630\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2083630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages_traeyoung.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2083630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trae Young is set to make his Wizards debut Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Trae Young appears set to make his first appearance for the Washington Wizards on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Young made an Instagram post of himself\u00a0<a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DVZWqjlEQrE\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">working out in Wizards gear<\/a> and ended it with \u201c3\/5.\u201d The Wizards are set to host Utah that night (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/uta-vs-was-0022500900\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">7 ET, League Pass<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Asked later Monday about the plan before Washington hosted Houston, coach Brian Keefe said the point guard was trending toward being ready to play against the Jazz. He said Young would likely be restricted to about 17 to 20 minutes, mostly in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time All-Star played in 10 games for the Atlanta Hawks this season, averaging 19.3 points and 8.9 assists before being sidelined by knee and quadriceps injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Wizards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/hawks-trade-trae-young-to-wizards-for-cj-mccollum-corey-kispert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acquired him<\/a> for CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert in January.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trae Young is set to make his Wizards debut Thursday. WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Trae Young appears set to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3776],"tags":[676,208,3874,7,677,6,71955],"class_list":["post-635582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-hawks","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-atlantahawks","tag-basketball","tag-hawks","tag-nba","tag-trae-young-wizards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116162621555469256","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635582","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=635582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}