Rumor: Multiple Teams Interested In Wizards' Trae Young

Although the expectation remains that Trae Young will stay with the Wizards on a longer-term contract, multiple teams — including the Heat — are considering potential trade pursuits of the four-time All-Star, sources tell Jake Fischer of The Stein Line.

Miami is contemplating 'big fish' backup options if the team is unable to acquire Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo, according to Fischer, who reports that Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard and Grizzlies point guard Ja Morant are on that list alongside Young.

A trade involving Young would require the 27-year-old point guard to exercise his $49MM player option for next season, per Fischer. He has until June 23 to make that decision.

As Fischer explains, while the Hawks were unable to find much of a market for Young when they traded him to Washington in January, there's a sense that he could be more appealing to rival clubs looking for play-making in the wake of the NBA's draft lottery changes, which penalize the bottom three teams by giving them worse odds at landing the top pick. The odds are also flattened throughout the lottery.

Of course, the Wizards were the worst team in the league last season, so they might want to keep Young around for similar reasons. And the eight-year veteran, who was limited to just 15 games played last season, 'relished' the warm welcome he received in D.C., Fischer writes.

While it's been projected that Young could sign a contract in the $40MM per year range, Fischer suggests Young's market value could be closer to the maximum, given the renewed trade interest. For what it's worth, Young's projected max is worth $212.9MM over four years from a rival team and $287.1MM over five years from the Wizards.

I find that hard to believe. Who's the source? Young's agent? LMAO

Nah. Trae has a lot of connections in DC. He wants to stay there. Other teams are just desperate

Bro, the Giannis to Miami has to stop. If that's giannis's true destination everything I said about him last year go back and read my comments is exactly right. And anyone I forget who it was. I try to say he's better than Kevin Garnett or Tim Duncan is absolutely insane. Going to Miami is just like being in Milwaukee. What's the difference?. Giannis is good enough to get to the playoffs every single year. He's not good enough to win in the playoffs, so being a first round and if you're lucky enough, a second round knockout doesn't matter if you have first round picks or not. You're getting high first round selections. So what is it that he feels is going to build around him in Miami? That's not in Milwaukee Bam cuz you're giving up Tyler hero you're giving up. Andrew Wiggins so adding Trey young is going to be just like adding Dame. Let's hurry up and get this trade done so we can move on with the off-season. I'm sick and tired of the Giannis crap. He most likely will never win another championship again

KG never won anything till he played with a real team and other HOF players. And only won two. Stunk it up in Bklyn. Duncan went to biggest tanking team ever. With plenty talent and future HOF players. They didn't carry any team. No player wins a chip. Takes a team to do it. And Giannis knows that. Just come to NY

Nobody is going to go back and read your comments from last year.

I would be kinda surprised by a Trae Young trade to be honest. Like every time I saw him on the bench or in the game he was engaged with his teammates, hell got himself thrown kicked from the bench by officials for coming onto the court to argue with a ref for his team. He seems like he wants to be here from what I gather and he looks like a great teammate from what I've seen.

So Miami is interested in, Trae, Giannis and Morant?

If the Heat miss on Giannas, Ja would be a terrific pivot at the right price.

He's got all nba potential but for various reasons hasn't reached that high yet. Miami is a place which prides itself on culture and working hard so if the two meshed well then it would be fantastic

I feel like a team like Houston (or even Memphis), with more tougher, hard-nosed, bigger, dog type guys around him & just a tougher overall culture, would be a better situation for Trae than DC. Him stayin in DC would be entertaining for sure but he seems like exactly what KD & the Rockets need.

Trae Young & Will Riley to Houston Jabari Smith Jr, Reed Sheppard & Dorian Finney-Smith to DC

Reed gets a fresh start in a much less pressurized Wizards's locker room alongside guys closer to his age/exp level. Reed/Bub at pg. Extremely talented group of young wings (Bilal Coulibaly/Darryn Peterson/Tre Johnson/Kyshawn George/Jabari) holding down the 2-4 spots. Then ADavis/Sarr at the 5 until AD eventually gets traded at the deadline. Rockets just don't have time to wait on Reed w/1st ballot HOFer KD's prime nearing it's end. They basically swap Reed for Trae, which is a huge/clear upgrade in the short term at least & swap Jabari for Will Riley while also dumping Dorian's contract in the process. Sucks to lose those talented youngsters (Jabari & Reed), but Trae Young makes their offense so much better while also making their best player happy in the process.

Houston won't do it. They won't trade away two young players who were #3 picks just because KD is there. Maybe 20 or 40 years ago a team would do it, but no FO will sanction that trade in 2026.

I mean, as a Wiz fan, I'd be over the moon with that trade. But it won't happen.

It doesn't really matter now that those guys were top3 picks a few yrs ago. KD being there matters bc it means they're ready to win a title now. Reed specifically isn't ready to help them do that yet so that's why they'd love to get a guy like Trae.

Doesn't look like Miami is getting Giannis and they nuked their relationship with Herro in the process, so he has to go somewhere. LOL

Signing Young and AD was always about getting something in return later, not about them being part of the future or anything like that. I'd like to see both traded ASAP.