Washington Wizards superstar Bradley Beal is returning to the All-Star squad in style. The 27-year-old has just been announced as the top vote-getter among East guards in the All-Star vote tally. He'll be playing alongside Kyrie Irving of the Brooklyn Nets as the starters for the East backcourt.
For his part, however, Bradley Beal himself couldn't quite comprehend how he ended up ranking first this year after missing out on the squad entirely last season:
“I have no idea. I have no idea,” Bradley Beal said before looking into the Zoom camera and smirking, via Fred Katz of The Athletic. “Part of me wants to say it’s all the trade rumors, but I don’t know.”
We have a pretty good idea why Bradley Beal is at the very top and it probably has a lot to do with the fact that his 32.8 points per game are currently leading the league.
However, where the contention lies is how Bradley Beal wasn't even voted into the team — not even as a reserve — last term. For what it's worth, he averaged 30.5 points per game throughout the 2019-20 season, which makes him arguably the biggest snub of last year's All-Star festivities. This is not the first time Beal has come out to say that the All-Star voting system has him baffled.
All the noise aside, though, Beal's recent achievement must not be undermined. Bradley Beal is in the midst of a awe-inspiring campaign — arguably his best ever — and it is only right that he gets the proper recognition for it, especially since this luminous individual talent is surrounded by a lot of dysfunction in Washington and hasn't received the help he needs or deserves in order to pursue at least a playoff berth, if not a championship.
On January 6, Bradley Beal busted loose for a career-high 60 points against the Philadelphia 76ers. That's the kind of game which has marked this special individual season for an elite player.
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