Bradley Beal Will Opt Out of $36.4M Player Option; Will Enter Free Agency; Pelton: Expected to re-sign with Wizards

[PhilBlackson]

Only cares about the money, good for him and his irrelevant career.

[Lockdown504090]

i think hes going to be the last guy to take the money then ask his team for a trade and make even more $$. They really should take a look at this in the cba, and the home team needs to be rewarded by having the extra supermax money not count against luxury tax/salary cap.

[Pointgod]

Wizards saw the John Wall deal and said

[xdrta+]

No he isn't better then prime Klay. That's an asinine statement.

That said he can be a championship 2nd option. Depends who the #1 is. Middleton was a championship 2nd option and they're on a similar level offensively.

But 2nd option is different then 2nd best player on a title team. He's WAY to bad of a defender for that



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Prime klay is a hall of fame player. Beal is a quarter step behind.


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Klay is nothing special. A 3rd fiddle on a championship team. Beal could have did Klay’s role and more on those stacked Warriors teams

Really? What more would he have done? Would he have played better defense than Klay? Shot 3s better than Klay?

[SK21209]

I knew Beal wasn’t held in super high regard on this Board but I didn’t realize it was that bad lol. Beal is a really good player, one of the 20 or so best in the league. His defensive effort and three point shooting numbers have gone down ever since Wall got hurt/left and he had to be the primary (and sometimes sole) offensive creator. If you swapped Beal with Devin Booker for example, I’m confident both teams are probably in the same position.

I also do not understand bashing this guy for wanting to stay in Washington. It seems like he genuinely likes the city and his family probably does too. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to stay somewhere you/your family like.

[Movics]

He’s not an all timer so the perception of him wouldn’t change if he made an All NBA 3rd team on a better squad while exiting in the first or second round. Why not make a quarter billion in 5 years then sign with a contender if he feels like chasing a ring? Dude is about to earn generational wealth in 1800 days. Good for him. I totally understand every player that takes this kind of money not thinking about personal or team success.

[Patsfan1081]

No he isn't better then prime Klay. That's an asinine statement.

That said he can be a championship 2nd option. Depends who the #1 is. Middleton was a championship 2nd option and they're on a similar level offensively.

But 2nd option is different then 2nd best player on a title team. He's WAY to bad of a defender for that



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Prime klay is a hall of fame player. Beal is a quarter step behind.


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Klay is nothing special. A 3rd fiddle on a championship team. Beal could have did Klay’s role and more on those stacked Warriors teams

???? He’s a 5 time all star, 2 time all nba. He’s 2nd all time in career 3’s, 7th regular season. Beal doesnt have accolades anywhere near that, and he’s a much worse defender.

[Patsfan1081]

I knew Beal wasn’t held in super high regard on this Board but I didn’t realize it was that bad lol. Beal is a really good player, one of the 20 or so best in the league. His defensive effort and three point shooting numbers have gone down ever since Wall got hurt/left and he had to be the primary (and sometimes sole) offensive creator. If you swapped Beal with Devin Booker for example, I’m confident both teams are probably in the same position.

I also do not understand bashing this guy for wanting to stay in Washington. It seems like he genuinely likes the city and his family probably does too. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to stay somewhere you/your family like.

He’s def talented, but the the narrative if he wants to be in Washington has been flip flopping every month. Who’s to say if he’s staying because he likes the city or its just the money. Its not like he’s taking a discount to stay.

[dribble1614]

What a horrid, awful contract. 5 y / 250 M for a guy who can’t lead a team to the second round or even the playoffs regularly. Would much rather tank and be a terrible team and stock up on high draft picks.

There’s 6-8 players in the league who are worth that contract and Beal isn’t near one of them.

[edmunder_prc]

I knew Beal wasn’t held in super high regard on this Board but I didn’t realize it was that bad lol. Beal is a really good player, one of the 20 or so best in the league. His defensive effort and three point shooting numbers have gone down ever since Wall got hurt/left and he had to be the primary (and sometimes sole) offensive creator. If you swapped Beal with Devin Booker for example, I’m confident both teams are probably in the same position.

I also do not understand bashing this guy for wanting to stay in Washington. It seems like he genuinely likes the city and his family probably does too. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to stay somewhere you/your family like.

I dont care how much Beal "genuinely likes" Washington, its $50 mill a year for the 29 year old Beal. He just had his prime and it was not a top 20 player in the league. Now you get early 30s Beal who will be worse on the court, for the highest contract in the league. Its awful. Its so bad the GM should be fired immediately for even considering it.

Booker is 25 and his prime is just beginning and he shot 38% from the 3 on high volume! Beal averaged slightly more points, shooting worse percentages in his prime which Beal just finished. Beal is a 6'4" shooting guard that relies on his athleticism. Booker has just started his prime and he is a shooter so those 26+ points a game arent going anywhere.

And I wouldnt pay Booker $50 million a year either! Riding Booker and some low priced vets will not win a championship. Unless he has another big jump in him.

[Edug27]

I knew Beal wasn’t held in super high regard on this Board but I didn’t realize it was that bad lol. Beal is a really good player, one of the 20 or so best in the league. His defensive effort and three point shooting numbers have gone down ever since Wall got hurt/left and he had to be the primary (and sometimes sole) offensive creator. If you swapped Beal with Devin Booker for example, I’m confident both teams are probably in the same position.

I also do not understand bashing this guy for wanting to stay in Washington. It seems like he genuinely likes the city and his family probably does too. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to stay somewhere you/your family like.

Because he’s an all nba level player who doesn’t seem obsessed with trying to win a title and position himself for a ring.

He definitely doesn’t have to be consumed with winning like other stars have been. He has every right to stay and take the money. Probably what most of us would do…. BUT he will be judged for that. You can’t avoid that.

[rocketsfan100]

Off course he will . He wants the super max from Washington. The only other team with the cap space that would make sense is Portland with Dame, Beal and Nurkic.

Well it was obvious to me he wasn’t passing up a quarter of billion dollars . And to be honest at his age and chance to set up up his grand kids for generational wealth you could not blame him.

[NO-KG-AI]

I've realized over the years, most of these guys want their FA courting moment, especially when there isn't a LeBron or something entering the fray that gets all the attention. They want teams to beg them, and fans to put up signs and all that other BS, even though they already know where they want to go.

[sp6r=underrated]

I knew Beal wasn’t held in super high regard on this Board but I didn’t realize it was that bad lol. Beal is a really good player, one of the 20 or so best in the league. His defensive effort and three point shooting numbers have gone down ever since Wall got hurt/left and he had to be the primary (and sometimes sole) offensive creator. If you swapped Beal with Devin Booker for example, I’m confident both teams are probably in the same position.

I also do not understand bashing this guy for wanting to stay in Washington. It seems like he genuinely likes the city and his family probably does too. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to stay somewhere you/your family like.

I'm not sold on Beal as a player but your last paragraph is completely correct. These are human beings. If you like the place you are living in, your kids have started school, uprooting yourself may not add to your happiness.

[Up-And-Coming]

I gotta say I don't blame him. Beal is probably ranked in the top 20-25ish best players so if I was him I'd run and take the Super Max contract too. If the Wiz stay healthy they may be good enough for Beal to lead them to the 7th seed playoffs/play-in.

[Eagle4]

Silly Beal saw KD and Kyrie quickly overshadowing him in all the star acquisition talk and said welp it was fun while it lasted lol. He's the new age Melo, far more interested in max money and mediocrity than winning. Nothing totally wrong with that, its a lot of damn money I'm just jaded with the attention seeking he tries. He probably would have gotten a smidge more respect just stating he'd re-sign from the jump rather than all this kiss my ass for a few weeks while I mull my decision shtick he tried once again. As if he were anything more than high scoring all-star.

[Ballerhogger]

They are about to give him that 248m! Don’t do it .. this type deal that sinks a franchise… ?? Oof don’t do it wizards let him walk or let him take a paycut

[baldur]

They are about to give him that 248m! Don’t do it .. this type deal that sinks a franchise… ?? Oof don’t do it wizards let him walk or let him take a paycut

The thing is somebody will pay him anyway. So it's not a legit argument paying someone 50m per year in terms of the probability of **** up a franchise. The contract and salary cap structure should be modified in order to paying almost half of the salary cap for a player no matter how good he is.

[JayMKE]

dude secures the bag

Not sure he cares much about winning but its not like the Wiz do either

[JN61]

The Twitter guy strikes again.

I think it's safe to say Beal plays this out for a first year then if they can't compete he starts to get grumpy and eventually traded 2-3rd year into the contract. The usual modern day NBA superstar.

Also we already had a thread about this but gotta get those and 1s I guess.

Superstar is funny. How many teams are going to want a $50 million SG that isn't a great 3 point shooter or defender? Desperate franchises will offer poo poo platters for him in 2 years.

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Ii reckon good 10 to 15. He would be the best player on so many teams. Beal gets a lot of hate but he is top 5 scorer that has good 7 or so players in the league. Beal was absolutely lethal with Westbrook.