Bradley Beal: Why Nuggets need to go all-out to trade for Wizards star

Bradley Beal has been fake-traded thousands of times over the last few years, but the Denver Nuggets may be the landing place that makes the most sense.

On the daily Locked On Wizards Podcast, host Renee Washington looks at the deal from both sides and explains why it makes sense for one team and not the other.

Renee Washington: For the Denver Nuggets, if you bring in Bradley Beal, now you are really priming yourself to be a team that is able to compete for championships, at least Western Conference Finals moving forward. Now, the biggest thing about the Nuggets is that they do have players in Michael Porter Jr. and Jerami Grant that showed their trade value and are worth putting in a deal to bring in a player like Bradley Beal

I think that they have shown pieces that you can move to bring in someone like Bradley Beal, but it goes back to my original question: Does this move make sense for the Wizards? For the Nuggets, there is no hesitation in my mind, it completely makes sense.

For the Wizards though, to bring in some young talented players like Jerami Grant and Michael Porter Jr. in place of Bradley Beal, does that make sense? Let's just speculate here because that's what we love to do. Let's just speculate that you bring those two in and get a draft pick out of it. You move Bradley Beal, who's only 27; we're not talking about a 32 or 33-year-old player who is towards the end of his career. I think Bradley Beal is still in the prime of his career. The numbers he puts up, the fact that his injury is one that he should be able to come back 110% from, I don't know that you're going to get enough value and efficiency on the floor from those two players, even if you throw in a draft pick that you would get for Beal.

I think about the deal that moved Kemba Walker and Kyrie Irving. That deal made sense to me because you're moving All-Stars, you're moving players that are around the same caliber. Now, I know Bradley Beal technically on paper is not an All-Star as of this past year, as he was snubbed from not only the All-NBA team but also the All-Star team. You have to move a player that's on his caliber, and I don't think Michael Porter Jr. or Jerami Grant are, although they definitely had some great performances in the playoffs. That's something worth arguing for, but I still don't know about that move, I'm not fully convinced. I still don't know if that move makes complete sense for the Wizards.