The Washington Wizards’ resolution to the John Wall industry seemed convenient because of their injury history, but there may be more than that.
According to Darnell Mayberry of The Athletic, NBA insiders, the relationship between Wall and Bradley Beal had “run its course at the most productive and turned rotten at the worst. “
Rumors about the dynamics between Wall and Beal have been going on for years. Wall told NBC Sports Washington in August 2016 that “we have a tendency not to like each other on the court. “
“We have to be able to put that aside,” he added. “If you miss someone in a game or if something is Array . . . as long as you meet and talk. If I start arguing with someone, I’m great. I only play basketball. “
The two players were also complementary. Beal wrote on his non-public blog in 2017 that Wall’s basketball IQ is “formidable, and I don’t think he gets much credit for it. “
Responding to this in a March 2017 interview with Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated, Wall said it was “amazing” to read Beal’s reviews:
“Either we’re talented young players who need to be big, we need to be special. But when you have two young men like that, they’re going to hit each other’s heads. Every superstar [duo], they already have, we hit their heads. Or we have a good reputation for each other to some extent [before]. But we know we can’t be the players we need to be without each other. We have understood it and we have a good reputation. “
The Wizards have had good luck with Wall and Beal as their two most sensitive players: they played in the playoffs 4 times in five seasons from 2013 to 2018, but never made it past the round of moments.
The 2018–19 season, the last tier of the dynamic Wall-Beal, Wall suffered a heel injury on December 26 that prevented him from staying away for the rest of the year and then broke his Achilles tendon in some other incident after falling into his home. next month.
Beal became the Wizards player after signing a two-year contract extension in October 2019 and is connected to the team in the 2021–22 season with a player option for 2022-23.
Wall traded the Houston Rockets for Russell Westbrook on December 2. He spent nine seasons with the Wizards after being selected first overall in the 2010 NBA Draft.
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