Trae Young has missed the past two games, and the Washington Wizards announced Saturday that the four-time All-Star point guard is recovering from with quad and back injuries that won’t require surgery but are being “treated conservatively.”
Young re-injured his right quad, sustaining a contusion during the third quarter of Washington’s loss to the Golden State Warriors on Monday, according to the Wizards, who also noted in their news release that related imaging revealed lower-back irritation that Young’s been dealing with.
“Further updates will be provided as appropriate,” the release reads.
Young, 27, has played in just 15 games this season, including only five with the Wizards, who acquired him in a January trade that sent CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert to the Atlanta Hawks.
The Wizards dropped all five of those games Young played in. His debut in Washington didn’t put a stop to a losing streak that has now stretched to 14 games. The Wizards also lost 14 consecutive games this fall when they trudged to a 1-15 start.
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Washington is two games away from tying a franchise-record 16-game skid. The Wizards most recently suffered that kind of slide in March 2024.
At 16-53, Washington currently has the second-worst record in the NBA. Only the Indiana Pacers have a worse record than the Wizards this season.
Washington hasn’t yet reaped the benefits of trading for a pair of league icons. The other, 10-time All-Star big man Anthony Davis, hasn’t played a game for the Wizards since they traded for him as part of an eight-player deal ahead of the deadline last month.
Davis hasn’t played since Jan. 8, when he injured his left hand while defending Jazz forward Lauri Markkanen on a baseline drive. He was with the Dallas Mavericks at the time of that setback.
The 32-year-old has been sidelined with ligament damage in that hand, but the Wizards stated earlier this month that he had been cleared to begin limited individual on-court basketball activities.
Washington has just 13 games remaining in its season.
As for Young, his 15 games played are by far the fewest he’s logged in a single season of his eight-year NBA career. Before the 2025-26 campaign, he had appeared in at least 54 games every season.
When the Wizards struck the deal to bring him over from Atlanta, he was sidelined with another right quad contusion. And before that, he sat out 23 games with an MCL sprain in his right knee.
While this season hasn’t gone according to plan for Young, and his Wizards era is off to a rocky start, he’s reportedly expected to sign a long-term extension with the franchise.
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