WASHINGTON — Washington Wizards point guard Trae Young might not play again this season.

In an update released Saturday, Wizards officials said Young is suffering from two injuries: “lower back irritation” and a right quadriceps contusion. Wizards officials said Young reinjured the quadriceps five days earlier, during the third quarter of a loss to the Golden State Warriors.

“Related imaging, due to ongoing back pain, confirmed lower back irritation,” Wizards officials said in their injury update. “Both injuries are being treated conservatively and will not require surgery at this time.”

Young’s injuries come during what has become an epic tanking race to the bottom of the league standings involving a larger-than-usual number of teams, including the Indiana Pacers, Wizards, Brooklyn Nets, Sacramento Kings and Utah Jazz.

Indiana entered Saturday with the league’s worst record, 15-55. Washington held the second-worst record at 16-53. Brooklyn (17-53), Sacramento (18-53) and Utah (21-49) round out the bottom of the standings.

Indiana has lost its last 15 games. Washington has lost its last 14 games.

Many of those teams’ key players will miss the rest of the season or are likely to miss the remainder of the season following injuries and/or surgeries. Some of those players are Indiana’s Ivica Zubac (fractured rib), Brooklyn’s Michael Porter Jr. (hamstring strain), Sacramento’s Domantas Sabonis (left meniscus surgery) and Zach LaVine (right hand surgery) and Utah’s Jaren Jackson Jr. (surgery to remove a growth in his left knee).

The Wizards traded for Young in January after he had missed much of the early portion of the Atlanta Hawks’ season because of an MCL sprain in his right knee and, later, a right quadriceps contusion.

Young sat out 25 games for the Wizards before he made his team debut on March 5. He has appeared in five games for Washington, playing under a minutes restriction. In 20.8 minutes per game with the Wizards, he has averaged 15.2 points and 6.2 assists per game.

Forward/center Anthony Davis has not made his Wizards debut since the team acquired him at the NBA trade deadline in February. There’s a possibility that Davis will not play again this season.

In a separate injury update released Friday, Wizards officials said Davis was reevaluated Thursday by a Los Angeles-based orthopedic surgeon who specializes in hand and wrist injuries. In their statement, Wizards officials wrote: “It was determined that Davis’ recovery continues to progress positively, but the volar plate tissue in his left hand has not yet fully healed. Davis will continue with conservative treatment and advance his basketball activity as tolerated. He will be reevaluated at the end of the month, and an update will be provided at that time.”

Last year, with lottery odds at stake in a draft headed by highly regarded prospects Cooper Flagg and Dylan Harper, the Wizards elected to hold out Bilal Coulibaly and Saddiq Bey late in the season. Coulibaly suffered a right hamstring strain on March 10, 2025, and missed Washington’s final 19 games. Bey spent the entire 2024-25 season rehabbing his left knee after he underwent reconstructive ACL surgery on March 27, 2024.