{"id":646846,"date":"2026-03-08T09:05:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T09:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/646846\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T09:05:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T09:05:54","slug":"is-trae-young-finally-making-wizards-debut-vs-jazz-after-hawks-trade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/646846\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Trae Young finally making Wizards debut vs. Jazz after Hawks trade?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Wizards<\/a> are set to host the Utah Jazz on Thursday night. Is Trae Young<\/a> going to make his Wizards debut tonight?<\/p>\n

Young was traded from the Atlanta Hawks to the Wizards<\/a> before the 2026 deadline. He has yet to make his debut with Washington, however, as the All-Star guard has been dealing with a knee injury<\/a> that has held him out of action since late December.<\/p>\n

Here’s everything we know about Trae Young’s injury status for tonight’s game vs. the Jazz.<\/p>\n

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Trae Young’s injury status vs. Jazz<\/p>\n

Trae Young is not listed<\/a> on the NBA injury<\/a> report and is expected to make his Wizards debut tonight against the Jazz.<\/p>\n

The Wizards are hopeful that Young and Anthony Davis can lead the team to a postseason run next year. Although Davis is still out due to injury, the next few weeks of the 2025-26 season will give Young an opportunity to become comfortable with his new team.<\/p>\n

At 16-45 and in 13th place in the Eastern Conference standings, Washington is not going to compete this year. Nevertheless, the future is intriguing for the Wizards.<\/p>\n

When it comes to the question of if Trae Young is playing tonight vs. the Jazz, the answer is yes.<\/p>\n

Wizards’ injury report<\/p>\n

The Wizards have eight players listed on the injury report.<\/p>\n

Anthony Gill (illness): Questionable
\nAnthony Davis (left finger sprain): Out
\nKyshawn George (left elbow sprain): Out
\nD’Angelo Russell (not with team): Out
\nAlex Sarr (right hamstring strain): Out
\nTristan Vukcevic (left thigh contusion): Out
\nJamir Watkins (left ankle foot sprain): Out
\nCam Whitmore (right shoulder deep vein thrombosis): Out<\/p>\n

The Jazz played a game on Wednesday against the Philadelphia 76ers, as they were defeated 106-102. With Thursday’s contest representing the second of a back-to-back for Utah, the Jazz have not released their injury report as of this story’s writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Wizards are set to host the Utah Jazz on Thursday night. Is Trae Young going to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,6,14502,494,682,468,3892,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-646846","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-nba-injury","11":"tag-trae-young","12":"tag-washington","13":"tag-washington-wizards","14":"tag-washingtonwizards","15":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116192764464885795","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646846","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=646846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}