{"id":556780,"date":"2026-03-22T10:12:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/556780\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T10:12:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:12:33","slug":"wizards-trae-young-out-with-multiple-injuries-no-timetable-for-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/556780\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards&#8217; Trae Young out with multiple injuries, no timetable for return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2117254\" class=\"wp-image-2117254 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/trae-iso-032126-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1441\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2117254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trae Young, acquired from the Hawks on Jan. 9, has appeared in 5 games with the Wizards, averaging 15.2 points and 6.2 assists.<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Wizards point guard Trae Young is dealing with a pair of injuries and is out indefinitely, the team announced before Saturday\u2019s game against the Thunder.<\/p>\n<p>Young re-injured his right quadriceps, sustaining a contusion during the third quarter of Washington\u2019s game against Golden State on Monday, the team said in a statement that also said he had lower back irritation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, he obviously got the contusion the other night, but he\u2019s also been dealing with a little bit of back pain, so we obviously did a little bit of imaging,\u201d coach Brian Keefe said before the game. \u201cThe back has been irritated. Don\u2019t have a timeline on any of that stuff yet, but obviously, he\u2019s out tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team said both injuries are being treated conservatively and will not require surgery at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Young, acquired in a trade with the Atlanta Hawks on Jan. 9, has appeared in five games with the Wizards, averaging 15.2 points and 6.2 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Washington has lost its last 14 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trae Young, acquired from the Hawks on Jan. 9, has appeared in 5 games with the Wizards, averaging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-556780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556780","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=556780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}