{"id":478064,"date":"2026-01-09T21:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=478064"},"modified":"2026-01-09T21:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:08:17","slug":"washington-wizards-delay-trae-young-debut-out-tonight-slow-return-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/washington-wizards-delay-trae-young-debut-out-tonight-slow-return-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Wizards delay Trae Young debut: out tonight, slow return planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1217\" data-end=\"1464\">The <strong data-start=\"1236\" data-end=\"1258\">Washington Wizards<\/strong> say <strong data-start=\"1263\" data-end=\"1277\">Trae Young<\/strong> won\u2019t play tonight due to a quad contusion and continued recovery from a knee sprain.<br data-start=\"1363\" data-end=\"1366\" \/>Washington is expected to ease him back, with its first-round pick only <strong data-start=\"1438\" data-end=\"1461\">top-eight protected<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1466\" data-end=\"1666\">The <strong data-start=\"1470\" data-end=\"1481\">Wizards<\/strong> announced <strong data-start=\"1492\" data-end=\"1506\">Trae Young<\/strong> will not make his debut with the team in tonight\u2019s game.<br data-start=\"1563\" data-end=\"1566\" \/>He remains sidelined because of a recent quad contusion while also working back from a knee issue.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1668\" data-end=\"1877\">The plan in Washington is to bring him along cautiously rather than rush the timeline.<br data-start=\"1754\" data-end=\"1757\" \/>That approach is tied to long-term priorities, with the franchise\u2019s first-rounder protected only in the <strong data-start=\"1861\" data-end=\"1874\">top eight<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1879\" data-end=\"2055\">A jersey note also surfaced: Young is set to wear <strong data-start=\"1929\" data-end=\"1938\">No. 3<\/strong> with the Wizards.<br data-start=\"1956\" data-end=\"1959\" \/><strong data-start=\"1959\" data-end=\"1969\">No. 11<\/strong> is unavailable because it has been retired to honor Bullets legend <strong data-start=\"2037\" data-end=\"2052\">Elvin Hayes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2057\" data-end=\"2175\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Wizards say Trae Young won\u2019t play tonight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":374157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-478064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Washington-Wizards.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478064"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=478064"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=478064"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=478064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}