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Trae Young Trade Fallout & Fantasy Reactions

Fantasy NBA Today

SportsEthos.com, Bleav

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🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Aaron Bruski and Dr. A react to the Trae Young trade and break down the fantasy implications across the league. Who benefits, who loses value, and how managers should adjust.

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Fantasy NBA today. Sports Ethos presentation brought to you by our great partners at Fandle. I'm Aaron Bruske. joined as always by the Hall of Famer Steve, Dr. A. Alexander. If you just missed it, we released an episode covering our top ads, streamers, and drop zone players. So make sure you go check that one out. In this episode, we're going to break down the latest news. dive into Dr. A's My Guys, my B-150 players, and then look into what to keep an eye on tonight. And then right now, we're actually going to break down this Trey Young trade, which obviously is huge, massive news in the fantasy world. Trey Young, traded to the Wizards for C.J. McCollum and Corey Kispert. A really interesting note that hit some point

0:40.0

in time after the trade yesterday. Michael Scotto reports that Tray Young will be evaluated after joining

0:46.0

the Wizards. Washington will proceed cautiously with Young after his previous MCL and current

0:51.5

quad injuries. He notes that Washington has the fourth worst record,

0:55.8

which would guarantee retaining their top eight protected pick if they hold this standing.

1:00.6

So Doc, how are you, sir? And where do you want to start with the Trey Young stuff?

1:05.2

I'm good. I just find it interesting that the hawks got nothing back.

1:12.6

Like they got an expiring contract in C.J. McCollum so that it's a money move.

1:17.7

They got rid of Trey without having to give up anything else.

1:23.8

And they got Corey Kisper, which is just a straight up throw-in.

1:29.9

And you know, the thing that ticks me off about this is the Hawks drafted Luca for Dallas

1:38.6

and then, you know, traded him to Dallas to get Tray Young.

1:44.0

Remember when Luca got traded from Dallas?

1:47.3

And everybody's like, that's all you got?

1:51.1

I haven't really heard that with Trey.

1:53.5

Like, people are just like, okay, Tray's gone, whatever.

1:57.8

And my son was like, dude, why didn't we get Bill Al-Kulibali or Justin

2:02.8

Shempennie or Trey Johnson or one of their young guys for giving them a borderline

2:11.3

superstar? It's just, I don't know, man, the ability to to for massive blockbuster trades with these guys all making so much

2:23.2

money i just i think it's it's so much harder to do it today than it used to be and if the best the hawks

2:30.2

could get for tray young is this then shame on the hawks for not selling him, for not

2:36.3

using him correctly in Atlanta, yada, yada, yada, and Trey wanted to go to Washington to be

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