{"id":486306,"date":"2026-03-03T08:56:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486306"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:56:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:56:43","slug":"washington-wizards-trae-young-ejected-from-the-bench-ahead-of-his-debut-set-for-thursday-vs-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/washington-wizards-trae-young-ejected-from-the-bench-ahead-of-his-debut-set-for-thursday-vs-jazz\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Wizards: Trae Young ejected from the bench ahead of his debut, set for Thursday vs Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1558\" data-end=\"1996\">A bizarre first for <strong data-start=\"1578\" data-end=\"1592\">Trae Young<\/strong> in Washington: the star guard picked up his <strong data-start=\"1637\" data-end=\"1694\">first ejection as a Wizard before ever playing a game<\/strong>. In Monday\u2019s <strong data-start=\"1708\" data-end=\"1719\">123-118<\/strong> loss to the <strong data-start=\"1732\" data-end=\"1751\">Houston Rockets<\/strong>, Young\u2014on the bench and not in uniform\u2014was ejected after <strong data-start=\"1809\" data-end=\"1862\">walking onto the floor to complain to an official<\/strong> during a confrontation involving <strong data-start=\"1896\" data-end=\"1910\">Tari Eason<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1915\" data-end=\"1932\">Jamir Watkins<\/strong> (Eason was also ejected).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1998\" data-end=\"2159\">Earlier in the day, Young posted that he plans to make his <strong data-start=\"2057\" data-end=\"2120\">Wizards debut on Thursday, March 5 at home vs the Utah Jazz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2161\" data-end=\"2399\">After being sidelined since <strong data-start=\"2189\" data-end=\"2200\">Dec. 27<\/strong> with right leg issues (knee\/quad), head coach <strong data-start=\"2247\" data-end=\"2262\">Brian Keefe<\/strong> said Young is expected to be on a <strong data-start=\"2297\" data-end=\"2337\">minutes restriction of roughly 17\u201320<\/strong> in his first game back.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2401\" data-end=\"2535\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young wasn\u2019t in uniform vs Houston but was tossed after stepping onto the court to argue a call during an on-court incident<\/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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-486306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"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\/486306","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=486306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486306\/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=486306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486306"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486306"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486306"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}