Trae Young was introduced to the home crowd with a video during the first quarter of Washington's game against New Orleans.

Trae Young, headed to Washington via trade, ends a nearly 8-season run in Atlanta with 4 All-Star appearances and a thrilling trip to the conference finals.

The four-time all-star, who is switching his jersey number to signal a fresh start, says he is comfortable coming to a team in which people ‘know the type of winner I want to be.”

The Trae Young era in Atlanta ended with a whimper rather than a bang on Wednesday night, with news of his trade to the Washington Wizards breaking while he was still on the bench at State Farm Arena watching the rest of the Hawks complete their rout of a pitiful, short-handed New Orleans Pelicans squad.

The first big NBA trade domino has fallen. A little less than a month before the Feb. 5 trade deadline, Trae Young, a four-time All-Star, was traded by the Hawks to the Wizards in a somewhat rare intra-divisional,

Trae Young's time with the Atlanta Hawks is over. A person with knowledge of the move says the Hawks have agreed to trade Young to the Washington Wizards for a package including veteran CJ McCollum.

Washington is sending veterans CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert back to Atlanta in the first major trade of this NBA season.

Raptors 118, Hawks 100: For the second time in three days, Atlanta fell to Toronto. The aforementioned Young didn’t play in either game, and the Raptors’ defense stymied the Hawks, holding them to sub-40 percent from the field. Scottie Barnes led Toronto (22-15) with 18 points, 10 assists and eight boards.