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The Sports Junkies

Reactions If Trae Young Doesn’t Play This Season

The Sports Junkies

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Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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From 01/09 Hour 3: The Sports Junkies debate if Trae Young will play this season.

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And yesterday we spent a lot of time talking about the wizards making a big trade the first

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big trade of the NBA season tray young gets dealt to Washington in exchange for c.J. McCollum

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and corey Kisper and if you look at like our junkies poll the day it was kind of a split on people whether they like the deal or not, although the majority of the guys in this room liked the deal.

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I wasn't a big fan.

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Whatever.

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Maybe he'll be fine.

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But it turns out he may not play.

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Well, that's part of Liking the deal.

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Yeah. Part of liking the deal is. Yeah, but all of you guys were liking the deal because of the play. No, no, no. That's not true. I'm telling you... That's mostly true. I was here listening. No, I told you... You're excited about his play. I told you 80% of me thinks he's going to be an asset in one year, bigger than he is now and they're going to get more compensation. I said that specifically yesterday. You were not listening. So don't get a twisted. But for him to be a big asset, he's got to put up numbers. He's got to play okay. He's got to play well. Yeah. He's got to put it might not fit here, which in a lot of people's minds, but guys like him aren't worth what they were years ago because he was traded for C.J. McCollum and Corey Kisper. He wasn't even traded for any draft picks. The value of guys like Trey Young has gone down over the last few years because that's a salary dumped by the Hawks.

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Correct. They just wanted to get out of the Trey Young business. Correct. They got whatever they could in return. But Jason, if he got to a point, and I doubt he would, but if he got to a point where he averaged 25 and 11, got a pretty good value. Okay. And if he- Well, he doesn't if he...

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But that presumes he's playing.

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Like, part of your argument was he's going to be exciting.

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