{"id":521638,"date":"2026-03-06T03:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/521638\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T03:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:17:10","slug":"trae-young-makes-wizards-debut-in-d-c-against-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/521638\/","title":{"rendered":"Trae Young makes Wizards debut in D.C. against Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2088967\" class=\"wp-image-2088967 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2264363608-1-scaled-e1772766385912.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2112\" height=\"1186\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2088967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trae Young scores 2 of his 12 points in Thursday\u2019s debut for the Wizards following a deadline trade from the Hawks.<\/p>\n<p>Trae Young <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DVZWqjlEQrE\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">looked ready<\/a> to make his Wizards debut earlier in the week, and followed through Thursday. He racked up 12 points (4-9 FGs) and 6 assists in 19 minutes during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/uta-vs-was-0022500900\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">122-112 loss<\/a> to Utah.<\/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 scores 2 of his 12 points in Thursday\u2019s debut for the Wizards following a deadline trade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85,260158],"class_list":["post-521638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-trae-young-debut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}