Anthony Davis and Trae Young are not expected to play again this season, Wizards coach Brian Keefe said before his team\u2019s 129-98 loss to the Chicago Bulls on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Young was acquired from the Atlanta Hawks on Feb. 5 but played just five games with the Wizards due to a quad contusion, MCL sprain and back issues. The 27-year-old point guard averaged 15.2 points and 6.2 assists on 59.5% FG and 42.9% 3PT with Washington while on a minutes restriction.<\/p>\n
Young has a $49 million player option for the 2026-27 season. He is widely expected to decline his player option and instead ink a multi-year contract extension to stay in Washington.<\/p>\n
Davis, 33, was acquired from the Dallas Mavericks at February\u2019s trade deadline but didn\u2019t make his Wizards debut due to ligament damage in his right hand. Washington kept pushing back the All-Star forward\u2019s return date before Keefe finally ruled out a return this season.<\/p>\n
The Wizards\u2019 decision to shut down Davis and Young for the remainder of this season should come as no surprise. Washington is still tanking despite securing a bottom-four record and keeping their top-8 protected pick. And with just three games left in its final rebuilding season, there\u2019s close to zero incentive in playing either of its star players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Davis and Trae Young are not expected to play again this season, Wizards coach Brian Keefe said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,6,682,468,15577,3892,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-705467","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705467","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=705467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}