Trae Young Has Yet To Play For The Wizards. But He Has Already Been Ejected From Their Game

Trae Young has yet to play a crippled for nan Washington Wizards.

The four-time All Star has, however, already been ejected from a crippled arsenic a personnel of nan team.

That happened Monday night, 3 days earlier Young’s expected debut for nan squad that acquired him successful a waste and acquisition pinch nan Atlanta Hawks connected Jan. 7. He has not played successful an NBA crippled since Dec. 27 because of knee and quadriceps injuries.

Earlier connected Monday, Young posted a video connected Instagram that showed him successful Wizards cogwheel and ended pinch “3/5” connected nan screen, indicating nan day Washington hosts nan Utah Jazz later this week. Before his team’s crippled against nan Houston Rockets connected Monday night, Wizards coach Brian Keefe said Young was trending toward being capable to play successful nan Utah game.

Still, Young was successful thoroughfare apparel and watching nan Rockets-Wizards crippled connected nan chair astatine Capital One Arena. During nan 3rd quarter, Houston’s Tari Eason shoved Washington’s Jamir Watkins to nan floor, an incident that did not tie a whistle from nan referees.

A fewer seconds later, aft a foul was called connected Eason for a different incident involving Watkins, Young stepped onto nan tribunal while yelling astatine referee Jacyn Goble apparently complete nan erstwhile no-call against Eason. Goble called a method foul connected Young, past said pinch unit main Tony Brothers and umpire Marat Kogut.

Brothers past announced that nan method foul had been called connected Young for moving onto nan tribunal and that Young had been ejected from nan game. Eason besides was ejected.

Young gave precocious fives to fans arsenic he near toward nan locker room. He did not speak to reporters aft nan Wizards’ 123-118 nonaccomplishment but joked astir his ejection connected X.

“Don’t expect maine to get ejected excessively galore much times D.C.,” Young wrote, adding a crying-with-laughter emoji, “but I’m decidedly bringing that power & competitiveness erstwhile I’m backmost for my brothers!”

After nan game, Keefe praised Young for having his chap player’s back.

“I deliberation he was conscionable sticking up for his teammates, which I thought was great,” Keefe told reporters. “Obviously, nan refs missed a telephone successful which our feline sewage knocked down, and I loved really our teammates stuck pinch him. So, immoderate happened successful that moment, I was really proud of him because he stuck up for his teammates and I really attraction astir that type of stuff.”

Keefe added that it’s an illustration of nan type of engagement Young has shown since he’s joined nan team.

“It’s thing that he’s not been doing nan full clip since he’s been here,” Keefe said. “He’s talking to everybody successful each timeout. He sees truthful much. He has truthful overmuch worldly to share. He’s wholly engaged successful nan full game. So I americium not amazed that he stood up [for] his teammates. That’s nan type of feline he is, and we’re fortunate to person him.”