{"id":710752,"date":"2026-06-18T04:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/710752\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T04:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:15:09","slug":"trae-young-plans-to-opt-out-become-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/710752\/","title":{"rendered":"Trae Young Plans To Opt Out, Become Free Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wizards star point guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/y\/youngtr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-17_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trae Young<\/a> plans to decline his $48.97MM option for the 2026\/27 season and become an unrestricted free agent, Marc J. Spears of ESPN <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MarcJSpears\/status\/2067423364311142638\" rel=\"nofollow\">tweets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Trae-Young-Wizards-2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-468917\"  \/>Re-signing with Washington on a multiyear deal remains a strong possibility, as Young has been impressed by the organization since the Wizards acquired him in midseason from the Hawks, according to Spears. There <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/06\/trae-youngs-potential-extension-range-with-wizards.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">has been speculation<\/a> that the two sides might agree to a new three-year contract in the neighborhood of $120MM. However, Young expects multiple teams to pursue him.<\/p>\n<p>By declining the option, Young is essentially taking himself off the trade market. The Stein Line\u2019s Jake Fischer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/06\/multiple-teams-interested-in-wizards-trae-young.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a> over the weekend that multiple teams were interested in acquiring the four-time All-Star point guard, but moving him would have been simpler for the Wizards if he had opted in and was on an expiring contract.<\/p>\n<p>Young\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/08\/early-nba-maximum-salary-projections-for-2026-27.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">projected max<\/a> is worth $212.9MM over four years from a rival team or $287.1MM over five years from the Wizards, though it would be surprising if he received that lucrative offer after what was essentially a lost season. Young was limited to a combined 15 games with Atlanta and Washington this season.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024\/25, Young averaged 24.2 points and a career-high 11.6 assists per contest in 76 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wizards star point guard Trae Young plans to decline his $48.97MM option for the 2026\/27 season and become&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99,47168],"class_list":["post-710752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports","tag-trae-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710752","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=710752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}