Young was introduced to the home crowd with a video during the first quarter of Friday night’s 128-107 loss to New Orleans. Earlier in the day, the trade that sent the high-scoring guard from Atlanta to Washington became official, and now Young can look forward to a fresh start after leaving the Hawks.

Trae Young, after a turbulent summer in which the Atlanta Hawks did not give him the supermax extension he wanted and a difficult start to the 2025–26 season, decided it was time to end his chapter with the franchise.

Trae Young is now officially a member of the Washington Wizards. It took a few days for the trade to go through, but everything went smoothly, and now Young is

For Atlanta, the trade represents a philosophical reset, with the organization shifting its focus to developing a younger core that includes Jalen Johnson, Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Dyson Daniels, Onyeka Okongwu and rookie Zaccharie Risacher.

Tim Bontemps and Brian Windhorst survey the league on the Trae Young deal and what comes next for the Washington Wizards and Atlanta Hawks.

By now, almost the entire basketball world has been informed of the deal that sent Trae Young to the Washington Wizards in exchange for CJ McCollum and Corey Ki

The Atlanta Hawks salary dumped Trae Young to the Washington Wizards on Wednesday night. It will be headlined as a trade, but Atlanta doesn't care too much about which players it got back in the deal: CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert.

Former NFL player Emmanuel Acho compared Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray to new Washington Wizards guard Trae Young.