Earlier in the week, I wrote that the Wizards shouldn’t concern themselves with replacing Kyle Kuzma’s scoring (or on-court production overall) when pondering potential trades. The tl;dr was a) Kuzma’s scoring isn’t valuable or impactful, b) his overall production is basically about average, and c) he’s about to turn 29 years old, which means he has much more of an NBA past than a future.
For Washington’s stated goal of being good in a few years, the most valuable thing the team can do with Kuzma is trade him for future assets who might fill useful roles over the next 5-7 years.