{"id":506485,"date":"2026-03-06T03:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506485\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T03:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:44:12","slug":"jazz-122-112-wizards-mar-5-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506485\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz 122-112 Wizards (Mar 5, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON — \u2014 Ace Bailey<\/a> crashed Trae Young<\/a>‘s Washington debut, scoring 21 of his career-high 32 points in the first half to lift the Utah Jazz<\/a> to a 122-112 victory over the Wizards on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Young, who was traded from Atlanta to Washington<\/a> in January, had 12 points and six assists while playing just 19 minutes. He’d been sidelined by knee and quadriceps injuries and was on a minutes restriction.<\/p>\n

Juju Reese had 18 points and 20 rebounds for the Wizards, who have lost seven straight. Utah snapped a seven-game skid of its own.<\/p>\n

Bailey, who was taken by the Jazz with the fifth pick in last year’s draft \u2014 one spot ahead of where Washington picked \u2014 made seven 3-pointers while surpassing his previous high of 25 points.<\/p>\n

Although Young’s appearance in the starting lineup was welcomed by the home crowd, the Wizards trailed by 14 after one quarter. Washington’s Tre Johnson<\/a> missed a breakaway dunk in the second, and although Young provided his share of highlights \u2014 including a pass between the legs of a defender to set up Anthony Gill<\/a>‘s layup in the third \u2014 Washington couldn’t come all the way back.<\/p>\n

Perhaps that was to the Wizards’ benefit. Washington entered the game with the NBA’s fourth-worst record, 1 1\/2 games behind Utah. The Wizards could lose their first-round pick this year if it falls out of the top eight.<\/p>\n

Reese, the brother of WNBA star Angel Reese, was signed by the Wizards to a two-way contract last week and now has the highest rebound total by any rookie in a game this season. He became Washington’s first rookie with 20 rebounds since Tom Gugliotta<\/a> in 1993.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Jazz: At Milwaukee on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Wizards: At New Orleans on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON — \u2014 Ace Bailey crashed Trae Young‘s Washington debut, scoring 21 of his career-high 32 points in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-506485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}