With All-Stars Trae Young and Anthony Davis anchoring a revamped roster, Washington faces a pivotal shift. Discover which veteran stars or rising phenoms will command the floor.
In 2026 the Washington wizards bring a plethora of capable scorers to the table. Playing with its most established roster in probably a decade, there's more than a few options that can give you a bucket when needed. Will the veterans in Trae Young and Anthony Davis lead the way? Or could it be one of Washington's young, rising talent?
Let's project the top-five offensive hierarchy for the wizards.
Trae Young
Trae Young has done whatever necessary to get himself acclimated to Washington DC. after playing in just five games with the team after the trade, the Wizards were already confident they had their franchise point guard.
Young enters this season with a fresh new deal, worth $212 million over the next four years. Washington views him as it's offensive engine, who will help create plenty of opportunities for its young players as they begin to ascend.
Still, young is going to score plenty, and I project him to lead this team in scoring early on. He's average 25.1 points per game across his seven year career. He's always found ways to score despite being one of the more prolific playmakers in the entire league. During his five games with the Wizards last year, he averaged 15.2 points per game, doing so and just under 20 minutes played per night. Needless to say, when he is playing at full strength for 30+ minutes, he'll find plenty of opportunities to score.
With his experience alone and and likely highest usage on the floor, it's not a wild prediction to assume he leads the wizards in scoring and shot attempts.
Anthony Davis
When Davis is on the floor, he'll produce plenty offensively. He only played 20 games in 2025 but was very effective when he was on the floor, averaging 20.4 points per game on 50.6 field goal percentage.
He's no longer much of a threat shooting from the outside, but he still creates plenty of issues for defenses on the interior. In 2025, he converted on 65% of his looks less than 5 feet from the rim, so expect him to be active around there.
Davis has plenty of of reasons to be one of this team's top scorers. At 33 years old, he's seeking a lucrative payday. He and the Wizards agreed to enter the regular season without a new contract. Good health and production from Davis could go a long way toward him getting a new contract.
Davis is playing in his 15th season, and he has averaged at least 20 points per night every year since his his second season in the league. It would be massively helpful for Washington, if Davis shows that he can still produce offensively at a high-level. When it acquired Davis, his value was at an all-time low. However, his production could certainly raise his value over the course of the season.
As in established 10 time All-Star, I expect him to have plenty of opportunities to score, if not the most on the team early on. Between he and Young, these seem like the most likely top scorers.
A.J Dybantsa
Here's where it gets interesting. Could the rookie be a top three scorer on the team in his first season? I think yes.
AJ Dybantsa has been projected to be the number one pick in the draft since he was 14 years old. It was pretty obvious he was going to be a great scorer, and that was evident as he led all of college basketball in scoring last season.
The summer league was a great glimpse of of what Dybantsa aims to do in the regular season. He scored 25 points on average in the two games he played, and showed no fear, taking it to the rack. Another thing to account for is how often he got to the free-throw line, which was an innate skill he had in college as well. If that translates to the regular season, he could shoot as many as 10 free throws per night.
Typically shot attempts is a pretty good statistic that carries over historically from summer league performances, so it feels likely the Wizards' new franchise cornerstone player will get plenty of opportunities to score early on.
Now that this type of player is in the building, the Wizards will do whatever is necessary to help him rise to the best version of himself in the next few years. The one question with his offensive game is how he'll preform shooting from the outside. He may just two of his 11 attempts from three during the summer league, and shot 33% from that department in his freshman season at BYU.
Regardless, he'll be one of the most prolific rim scores on the team. He converted on eight of his nine attempts at the rim during the summer league. I expect him to be top three and scoring over the course of the season, but as the year goes on, his production could continue increasing.
Alex Sarr
It was a tossup between Sarr and Kyshawn George for this fourth spot, but I will give it to Sarr because of his new floor general in Young.
The former second overall pick took a massive step forward in 2025, jumping his point total to 16.3 per night while in increasing his efficiency by around 9%. Now that there are more established scores on the team, he may see less shot attempts, which were around 13 per night last year.
However, he'll be playing alongside a true point guard for the first time in his career, which should do wonders for him. Sarr massively improved his touch around the rim, making nearly 68% of his looks right around the rim.
Young is one of the better pick and roll players in recent memory, and he should give Sarr plenty of easy opportunities to score. Even if his attempts go down, I'd expect his efficiency to go up, which would be a welcome sight for the Wizards.
Kyshawn George
George might just be the most complete young player the Wizards have. Last season saw him practically doubled nearly all of his statistical numbers. In 48 games, he averaged just under 15 points per night.
This came with him having to play in a much more heavy ball handling role as well. What his actual role looks like this season has been one of the top storylines of the entire off-season. It's easy to imagine a world where he slots in is the fifth and final starter at either the two or the three, but it's not unreasonable to think he could come off the bench, and be one of the primary backup ballhandlers.
George can get it done as a three-point shooter. He made 38% of his attempts last season, and now he'll have a true playmaker to help set up catch and shoot looks from three. George has a unique blend of skills that allows him to score it all three levels. Although he's a talented offensive player, he could be one of the players that ends up sacrificing touches more than anyone for players like Young, Davis, and Dybantsa. Still, if Washington needs a bucket George is more than capable of getting one.
