3 Wizards Players Who Won't Be Back Next Season

The Washington Wizards are finishing the 2025-26 season on a shameless tanking run, having lost nine straight heading into their finale on Sunday, clinching the worst record in the NBA, and a top 14% chance at landing the No. 1 pick in the Draft Lottery next month.

The Wizards have submitted a ridiculous ten-person injury report for their finale, as follows:

Here is the Wizards' injury report for their season finale Sunday in Cleveland: pic.twitter.com/Cewf9jqQyt
— Josh Robbins (@JoshuaBRobbins) April 11, 2026

Trae Young, Anthony Davis, Tre Johnson, Bilal Coulibaly, Alex Sarr, Tristan Vukcevic, Kyshawn George, D’Angelo Russell, Cam Whitmore are all out, and Anthony Gill is questionable.

But while all of those players will miss Washington's final game of the season, most of them will be back next season. However, there are a few players on the roster who will NOT be back.

Let's take a look at three Wizards players who will almost certainly not return next season and will not be a part of the new Trae Young/Anthony Davis era in DC.

D'Angelo Russell

D'Lo came to the Wizards as part of the Anthony Davis trade at the deadline. He hasn't played a single game for the Wiz, however, despite the team obviously having serious roster issues to field a team each night to put on the court.

He has a player option on his contract for $6M next season, but with Trae Young manning the point full-time, Russell will not have much of a role in DC. Expect the 30-year-old to find a new place to call home this summer.

Jaden Hardy

Another guard who came from Dallas in the Davis trade, Hardy, a second-round pick in 2022, has taken the opportunity to show his talents in the Wizards backcourt, averaging 12.9 points and 41.8% from long range in his 20 minutes of action a night.

But with a backcourt of Young plus a couple of first-rounders with high-end pedigree ahead of him in Tre Johnson and Bub Carrington, there just doesn't seem to be room next season for Hardy. The Wiz will try to work out a trade for him.

Justin Champagnie

The undrafted forward has finally gotten a chance to strut this stuff in the NBA with Washington, and has proven to be a decent rotation piece. But it's getting awfully crowded at the forward spot in DC, and with all the healthy bodies returning next season, it doesn't feel like there's a spot for Champagnie on the roster going forward. He has one more season to run (two with a team option year in 2027) at a very cap-friendly $2.6 million salary. There will surely be another team looking to take him on.