{"id":486775,"date":"2026-03-06T08:47:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486775"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:47:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:47:32","slug":"trae-young-makes-wizards-debut-flashes-of-brilliance-in-19-minutes-but-jazz-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/trae-young-makes-wizards-debut-flashes-of-brilliance-in-19-minutes-but-jazz-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Trae Young makes Wizards debut: flashes of brilliance in 19 minutes, but Jazz win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1735\" data-end=\"2101\"><strong data-start=\"1735\" data-end=\"1749\">Trae Young<\/strong>\u2019s first night in a <strong data-start=\"1769\" data-end=\"1791\">Washington Wizards<\/strong> jersey delivered exactly what the D.C. crowd came to see: highlight creativity and elite playmaking \u2014 even with clear rust. Playing <strong data-start=\"1924\" data-end=\"1938\">19 minutes<\/strong> on a roughly 20-minute restriction in his first game since the January trade, Young posted <strong data-start=\"2030\" data-end=\"2057\">12 points and 6 assists<\/strong> in a <strong data-start=\"2063\" data-end=\"2074\">122-112<\/strong> loss to the <strong data-start=\"2087\" data-end=\"2100\">Utah Jazz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">TRAE YOUNG&#8217;S FIRST CAREER BUCKET AS A WIZARD \ud83e\ude84 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J6MQg0cu9f\">pic.twitter.com\/J6MQg0cu9f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNNBA\/status\/2029712535759266215?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2103\" data-end=\"2415\">The signature moment came nearly 21 minutes into the game: a pump fake beyond the arc, a drive, a behind-the-back pass fake and a tough scoop finish that sent <strong data-start=\"2262\" data-end=\"2283\">Capital One Arena<\/strong> into a roar. Young went <strong data-start=\"2308\" data-end=\"2330\">1-for-5 from three<\/strong>, later admitting, \u201c<strong data-start=\"2350\" data-end=\"2414\">My shots were on line. I just didn\u2019t have any legs under me.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2417\" data-end=\"2764\">Young leaned into facilitation early, flashing no-look finds and live-dribble creation, while also acknowledging chemistry is still forming with new teammates. Defensively, Utah targeted him in ball screens and repeatedly got downhill, with coach Brian Keefe pointing to dribble penetration as the key issue as the Jazz knocked down <strong data-start=\"2750\" data-end=\"2763\">15 threes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2766\" data-end=\"2811\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capital One Arena gets a taste of the show \u2014 12 points, 6 assists on a minutes restriction, with early rust from deep<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":486774,"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":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-486775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-06-alle-08.45.02.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486775","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=486775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486775"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486775"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486775"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}