Trae Young traded to Wizards
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for January 8th, 2026, presented by Amazon Prime. I'm Dave DeFore here with Espera Henney. Coming up, Trey Young traded to the Wizards. We got Josh Robbins on to talk about it. Bunch of crazy games last night. We're going to go through them. And Brian Geisinger is here to talk about the Hornets and their development this season. Good morning and welcome to the show, guys. We've got some breaking news at the top. Josh Robbins is here to talk about it. Trey Young traded to the Atlanta Hawks for C.J. McCollum and Corey Kispert. It's kind of the deal we were talking about earlier today. Josh, lay out the specifics and how we got here. OK, very clean trade going to Atlanta.
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What are the details of the Trae Young trade to the Wizards?
McCollum, Corey Kispert going to Washington. Trey Young. That's the trade. Yeah, easy peasy. That's the trade. How did they get here? Well, Trae Young did not agree to a long-term extension. Let's put it like this. The Hawks and Trae Young did not agree to a long-term extension during the offseason or in the past few months. The Washington Wizards lack a long-term solution at point guard. And while it's unclear... Whether this will work, this appears to be a very low-risk, relatively low-cost move from the Wizards' standpoint. And from Atlanta's standpoint, a team that is built to contend now in the East... they get two very good wing scorers who should be able to help. And CJ's a combo guard, so he can handle the basketball quite deftly.
And so I think in the short term, this should work for both teams. And I will be interested to see how much Trey Young plays the remainder of the season for Washington. Seems to me TBD. And so that's something for all of us here on this podcast and the fans listening at home to monitor. Yeah. Were you surprised at all that there were no picks going, I mean, in either direction? I never expected any... I never expected... Any picks that the Wizards sent to Atlanta to exceed in value anything Atlanta sent to the Wizards. Now, 24 hours ago, 12 hours ago, I would have thought Atlanta would have sent draft capital Washington's way in order to accept the salary for next year. It's a $49 million player option.
Yeah. But I was proven wrong. But there was so much speculation in so many corners of the internet, social media, TV, that the Wizards would be sending the Hawks picks to That part, I never thought that was going to happen, unless maybe the Wizards sending a second-round pick and then getting a first-round pick. Right. On that one, I'm not surprised. A lot of other things in basketball surprised me. Not this one, though. Josh, do you see this as a trial run for Trae Young, or is there, I guess, momentum or acceptance to the fact that this could be a long-term thing extension-wise? Well, as... Our colleagues and I wrote, our colleagues being David Aldridge, Sam Amick, and me. Right now, it looks like it's going to be a trial run.
If we assume that Trae Young plays again this season, they'll have the rest of the season for both sides to look to evaluate, particularly the Wizards to evaluate. And if he doesn't play this season... It can go into next year, evaluate the fit with the young players on the Wizards and Trey Young. See how that goes. It's going to be a very interesting dynamic because Trey Young is a ball dominant point guard. And after the Wizards have moved off of Jordan Poole, it's been a motion offense where everyone's passing the ball at a super fast pace. And that's what the Wizards are going to have to evaluate. And let's just say they don't come to any sort of long-term agreement. And we assume that Trae Young invokes his $49 million player option for next year.
Well, then the Wizards will have a decision to make at the 2027 trade deadline or free agency in 2027.
How does the Trae Young trade impact the Wizards' long-term strategy?
Yeah. And with the trade. It is essentially a trial run. Right. And with the trade, they also get his bird rights. So if they wind up working out an extension down the line or whatever, they have that tool in their pocket. I mean, the fit to me does make sense if you believe in a higher ceiling for the Wizards defense next season.
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