WASHINGTON — Kelly Oubre Jr. will have plenty of help making the cross-country transition from the nation’s capital to Arizona’s capital.

“All I got to do is move my stuff from my apartment into storage to make a home in Phoenix,” Oubre said Friday. “That’ll be a process, but I just got to continue to just worry about basketball and everybody else on my team is going to take care of the rest.”

His girlfriend is handling the two puppies.

“She’s holding it down for me at home making sure everything is smooth for the transition,” Oubre said. “Her family was in town, too, so they helped me out a lot in that transition. It’ll be smooth. She’s a solider. She’ll hold it down for me.”

Oubre is in the middle of a five-game road trip with his new team, the Suns, who stopped in Washington, D.C., on Saturday to play his former team, the Wizards, before heading up to Brooklyn to play the Nets and finally down to Orlando to play the Magic the day after Christmas.

He hasn’t been to Phoenix since the trade, but the plan is for his girlfriend to join him there for a couple of days. Oubre said she’ll go back to Washington to coordinate the move and then return to Phoenix where the Suns will begin a seven-game homestand Friday against Oklahoma City.

Washington has been Oubre’s home since 2015 when he landed in D.C. as 19-year-old out of Kansas.

“I gave everybody my all, man,” said Oubre when asked what he hopes Wizards fans remember about his three-plus seasons in Washington. “I came in there every night, no matter if I played well or not, I gave it my all. I did it for the city, I did it for the team. That’s just who I am. I’m a loving individual so it shouldn’t be nothing but love and I love them and I appreciate their support.”

That’s why it’s easy for him to say he hasn’t really left the city yet, but when Oubre went back to his apartment just 10 minutes away from where the Suns were staying at the Ritz-Carlton, reality set in.

“I was watching TV and I was like, ‘Damn, I don’t even live here anymore,’ ” Oubre said. “Just got to get acclimated to change.”

Oubre joins an already youthful team featuring 22-year-old Devin Booker and 7-footer Deandre Ayton, who is 20 years old and one of five rookies on the roster, but he already likes the Suns’ composition.

“At the end of the day, we all have pretty much the same energy,” he said. “We all want to get better. We all want to play basketball and be great playing basketball. We all kind of center around that. It’s not necessarily age. I don’t really believe in age. If your mind is strong enough, you can do anything, no matter how old you are.”   

Oubre caught wind of the trade Friday night when the Wizards played at Brooklyn. Phoenix first tried to acquire him in a three-team deal, but it fell through after what Suns interim general manager James Jones calls a “miscommunication” over whether they were getting Dillon or MarShon Brooks from Memphis.

While that was unfolding, Oubre found himself in a state of limbo.

“It was crazy,” Oubre said. “It was hectic, man. The first time I felt that was on draft night. Not really knowing what’s going on or where I was going to go.”

At the 2015 draft, Atlanta picked the one-and-done talent 15th overall, but traded him for Jerian Grant, whom Washington picked 19th overall out of Notre Dame.

Three seasons and 29 games later, Oubre was involved in another trade.

“It hit me by surprise, obviously,” Oubre said. “I didn’t really expect my name to be in it, but it was and I had to pretty much accept the change and keep it moving because it’s a business at the end of the day and I accept that. I’m past it and I’m glad the guys in the locker room were man enough to tell me what was going on when it had involved me. It was a blessing.”

Phoenix eventually sent Trevor Ariza to Washington for Oubre and Austin Rivers, whom it later waived as both parties agreed it would be best if he was with an older team with current playoff aspirations.

Asked if he understood why the Wizards traded him, Oubre said: “Nope. I’ll keep it at that.”

The 6-foot-7 forward was averaging a career-high 12.9 points per game for the Wizards this season.

“I could go into theories of why (general manger) Ernie (Grunfeld) and (vice president of basketball operations) Tommy (Sheppard) did what they did, but at the end of the day, it’s not my job to,” Oubre said. “I’m on the business aspect of it and I’ve got to make home in Phoenix.”

Oubre said he’s received “heartfelt text messages” from people within the organization since the trade.

“Four years is a long time,” he said. “You really get to know somebody in that time. … I appreciate everybody that hit me up. It was just love all the way around.”

Oubre made a splash in his Suns debut with 13 points in a 111-103 win over the Celtics in Boston. He scored nine in the fourth quarter, including a game-sealing 3-pointer.

“He’s in that tweener position where he can guard one through five,” said Booker, who was in the same draft class as Oubre. “He can shoot the 3 and attack. He can do a little bit of everything.”

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