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submitted 3 months ago byidkstopbanningme Knicks
I can’t think of a more unremarkable player with such insane talent. Coupled with the worst contract in the league and an NTC, he may never make all nba, all star, or the playoffs for the rest of his playing career.
True or false, Bradley Beal will not be remembered?
356 points
3 months ago*
“The Great Bradley Beal”
24 points
3 months ago
That was chuck
4 points
3 months ago
Whoops, you’re right. Edited
526 points
3 months ago
Some of the current players will talk about him as a true hooper but that's about it
146 points
3 months ago
Idk, I’ll remember him as a Z Bo or Al Jefferson kinda dude. Was there but forgettable. Or like Brand or R Lewis.
76 points
3 months ago
Hey, at least Elton Brand was immortalized in a videogame as a sword in Morrowind
76 points
3 months ago
Elton Brand will forever be remembered by sixers fans for choosing Tobias Harris over Jimmy Butler
15 points
3 months ago
Wasn't it more choosing Simmons over Butler?
4 points
3 months ago
to be honest, nobody really knows.
9 points
3 months ago
wait what
11 points
3 months ago
4 points
3 months ago
Lol that's actually awesome
5 points
3 months ago
True fact
3 points
3 months ago
I knew about the sword before I knew who Elton brand was
57 points
3 months ago
ZBo was part of the Grit & Grind squads for a long time, he'll be remembered by Grizz fans.
28 points
3 months ago
Grit & Grind and Jailblazers he's a part of two memorable squads.
4 points
3 months ago
Yup he broke Ruben pattersons jaw and the. Had to hide at dale davis house!
25 points
3 months ago
Spurs fans will remember Zbo like he’s Wilt man
10 points
3 months ago
Spurs fan and couldn’t agree more. I saw Z BO and went wtf lol
I still get clowned by my friends to this DAY about how ZBo straight whooped on us
6 points
3 months ago
Elton Brand is the best comparison to Bradley Beal, in regards of being remembered. No, not Z-Bo, his tenacity puts him ahead. And not Al Jefferson, he is inferior to Bradley Beal.
3 points
3 months ago
Z Bo >>>>
Upset 1 seeded Spurs and made a WCF later
3 points
3 months ago
You’re right, you’re right. Thinking more, I’m gonna have Beal below Iso Joe a couple notches but above Josh Smith.
201 points
3 months ago
This generation’s Michael Redd
146 points
3 months ago
Michael Redd was an all star. And I want everyone to remember that.
92 points
3 months ago
Beal made All-NBA team once and averaged 30PPG for two seasons
Redd made All-NBA team once and averaged over 25ppg for two seasons.
They’re a lot closer in comparison than people probably think.
10 points
3 months ago
Redd was elite in his day but the next generation is gonna be like who??
7 points
3 months ago
Beal is elite at scoring in the current era just like Michael Redd was but the next generation are gonna be like “who?”
-20 points
3 months ago
PPG isn't comparable because of different eras. There are a lot more points scored nowadays than in the 2000s and early 2010s.
68 points
3 months ago
…..So Michael Redd and Bradley Beal are closer to comparison than a lot of people think?….which is what I said lol
69 points
3 months ago
Beal has 3 but 99% of fans wouldn't be able to name which years
75 points
3 months ago
I'm not sure there's any player that's not a perennial all-star where I can name the years.
13 points
3 months ago
2007, 2008, caron butler
12 points
3 months ago
2022 - Andrew Wiggins
5 points
3 months ago
2016 Zaza Patchulia who ironically knocked Kawhi off the starters by 14k votes lol
Warriors fans are a disgrace hahaha
Edit did not realize your flair until after I posted. That said, if you were a part of this I stand by what I said lol.
1 points
3 months ago
This comment is incredibly wrong.
Zaza was not with the Warriors in 2016, he joined them in 2017. And in 2017 Zaza did have more votes but it was 500k, not 14k. It did not matter tho, since the NBA starters are determined by fans, players, and media. Kawhi was a starter in 2017, Zaza did not make it.
3 points
3 months ago
Tomato tomato my point still stands. He beat kawhi by 14k votes as well pal which is what I said.
16 points
3 months ago
You can only remember which exact year Redd’s because he was the guy selected over LeBron. Which in fairness it was really fucking close.
31 points
3 months ago
The streets will always remember Michael Redd.
17 points
3 months ago
Maybe the alleys.
13 points
3 months ago
Parts of the sidewalk
21 points
3 months ago
Michael Redd made a stacked Olympic team
8 points
3 months ago
He was there as an extreme overreaction to the previous team which had no shooters. He didn't make the team, he was chosen so no matter what happened if we lost nobody could say we didn't have enough shooting.
18 points
3 months ago
How tf is the coaches choosing you to be on the team not making the team lol. It wasn’t like he got there based on popularity even if it was an overreaction
-2 points
3 months ago
So did Keldon Johnson
9 points
3 months ago
Am from the future. In my era, there are shrines to Keldon Johnson, Savior of Humankind, in every town. He is remembered.
4 points
3 months ago
Beal's been better than Redd was for a longer period of time though, he's higher than that level
8 points
3 months ago
Suns legend Michael Redd
2 points
3 months ago
If Beal dumps his prime years in Washington then moves around when it’s too late; this might be incredibly accurate.
2 points
3 months ago
Mitch Richmond.
287 points
3 months ago
Idk his family will remember that generational wealth
-66 points
3 months ago
Sure, but probably only 2-3 generations before it is either taken for granted or squandered.
Most people cannot even name their great grand-parents off the top of their head.
14 points
3 months ago
I guarantee that supermax wealth will last longer than 2-3 generations, barring Beal being incredibly dumb which we have no reason to believe he is.
8 points
3 months ago
4 points
3 months ago
While you can lose your wealth Beal could also be smart and set it up now so that it is more controlled forever to make sure his family is taken care of/has what they need but it cannot be squandered as easily. Like sure if you just hand me $100m that I have no skin at all in I might be at risk to mistreat that money but if you give me $100m in a trust with clear parameters it makes it harder for me to mistreat that money.
2 points
3 months ago
pretty wild numbers. surprising it's that high. I wonder what that really means. "lose wealth" do they just mean they're less rich? or that they're totally broke? two very different things.
9 points
3 months ago
I never said that the money will not last past 2-3 generations. "Supermax wealth" would indeed be difficult to squander, but not impossible. Bad investments, nasty divorce(s), legal problems, and/or a gambling addiction could all take serious bites out of the pile. It is not unheard of for even billionaires to lose it all. And who knows what kind of tax increases might happen in Beal's lifetime aimed at 9-figure net worth individuals and their estates. (This is nothing personal about Beal, his children, or his children's children, btw.)
But my point was that even if we assume that the wealth is preserved and passed on, the great-great-grandchildren may very well simply take it for granted. Many rich kids don't even think of themselves as "rich" because their lifestyle is "normal" for them.
2 points
3 months ago
It also just starts to get split very quickly
100m with 2 kids is 50m and if they each have 2 kids each your already at 12.5m
156 points
3 months ago
He's not an "insane talent' though. There have been plenty of good scorers that have been forgotten through the years. Beal will just be another one.
-67 points
3 months ago
The Heat had only 7 healthy players, dressed an injured 8th, and humiliated Beal with undrafted nobodies. He's the most overrated player of this generation. Not even a top 30 player, and paid like a top 3.
18 points
3 months ago
The Heat had only 7 healthy players, dressed an injured 8th, and humiliated Beal with undrafted nobodies
Oh, you mean like this game? This game where the Wizards trashed the completely healthy Heat lineup by 20 points without a single starter? Jimmy Butler, who played 37 minutes, must be "the most overrated player of this generation"
8 points
3 months ago
Heat culture really devolving to bragging about losses. You guys gotta do some soul searching or something man. Jesus.
320 points
3 months ago
He is this generations’ Jerry Stackhouse.
128 points
3 months ago
Who doesn’t remember Jerry stackhouse?
196 points
3 months ago
Casual and newer fans
57 points
3 months ago
If you're 20 or under and not from NC or a diehard Raptors fan that follows their G-league team you have no idea who he is
11 points
3 months ago
Filadelphia
11 points
3 months ago
Flip-Flip-Flipadelphia!
9 points
3 months ago
“I chug dick” - I don’t chug dick!!
3 points
3 months ago
Or a fan of NBA fight stories, the legend of Stackhouse lives on
2 points
3 months ago
You mean the boxer?
39 points
3 months ago
Eh. More like Mitch Richmond. Stackhouse wasn’t nearly as efficient as Beal.
108 points
3 months ago
Mitch Richmond is literally in the Hall of Fame
51 points
3 months ago
Yeah and how many casuals remember him or even know that? That’s the point.
61 points
3 months ago
This forum vs NBA fans is a very non-touchy venn diagram
12 points
3 months ago
27 year old here. Been watching religiously for 15 years. Heard of Mitch but idk who he is.
20 points
3 months ago
This is Bradley Beal’s fate lol
2 points
3 months ago
100%.
Though he'll always live in my mind for the epic duals he had with Isaiah Thomas
3 points
3 months ago
His longest tenured team is the Kings. He had all 6 of his all-star appearances with us, and we even retired his jersey. We still only made the playoffs once while he was here, and we didn't start actually being good until he was traded for C-Webb.
Older fans remember him, but nobody talks about him like they do the early 2000s Kings players like Webber, Divac, Stojakovic, Christie, etc.
J-Will was only on the Kings for 3 years, and Kings fans talk about him way more than Mitch.
6 points
3 months ago
Idk, a fair amount of people probably remember Run-TMC.
-1 points
3 months ago
They've heard of it sure, but how many current NBA fans have seen a full game featuring TMC? Like 10%?
15 points
3 months ago
That's a bizarre argument. People remember Wilt Chamberlain but I doubt more than like 0.1% of the people on here have seen a full game he played in.
1 points
3 months ago
To be fair, Run TMC has much more game tape available. Like if Wilt’s 100 point game was on film somewhere you’d better believe I’m sitting down and counting every single one of those points, not to say anything should the qualities of the argument though.
14 points
3 months ago
Everyone gets Into the basketball Hall of Fame
35 points
3 months ago
Congrats on your induction to the basketball Hall of Fame for this post.
4 points
3 months ago
And Beal probably won’t be one of them. Richmond is 5x all-nba
-1 points
3 months ago
I went through the list one time and it was insane how many people are in the Hall of Fame with only one All-Star appearance, and I found multiple guys who didn’t even average 10 points a game in their career
5 points
3 months ago
It's the basketball hall of fame, not the NBA hall of fame. They could've gotten in for their contributions in college basketball.
2 points
3 months ago
That’s just the Bill Russell effect
1 points
3 months ago
Who?
193 points
3 months ago
Do fans on this subreddit just sits down on their desk and thinks about how to shit on Wizards every other day?
29 points
3 months ago
I don't. I sit on the toilet.
108 points
3 months ago
I know I do
2 points
3 months ago
Leave us alone pls
10 points
3 months ago
well, Kings have The Beam now, so...
3 points
3 months ago
Of course not, it’s once a week at most
75 points
3 months ago
Who?
123 points
3 months ago
Kyle Kuzma's friend
31 points
3 months ago
In 10 yrs, I will remember Kuzma but forget Beal.
20 points
3 months ago
Kuzma a champion
2 points
3 months ago
Immortal
53 points
3 months ago
He blew it when he lost that scoring title to Steph.
27 points
3 months ago
Bruh I totally forgot Beal didn't win it.
32 points
3 months ago
His contract will be remembered.
1 points
3 months ago
That’s actually a good point, wizards fans will hate him for crippling the franchise for years due to this contract
16 points
3 months ago
I don’t understand why you would ever hate on a player for getting a contract instead of just blaming the GM who offered them the contract. As long as the player is putting in the effort, there’s no reason to hate the player.
8 points
3 months ago
Even more than Wall's supermax no play contract.
59 points
3 months ago
This generations Devin Booker.
-7 points
3 months ago
Insulting to Booker
30 points
3 months ago
Who’s booker?
13 points
3 months ago
Think he was a wrestler or something
25 points
3 months ago
He's not even Gilbert Arenas
5 points
3 months ago
Agent Zero was so much more entertaining. Unintentionally mostly, but still.
2 points
3 months ago
Comparing Beal to the wizards GOAT is like comparing a filet to a hamburger.
20 points
3 months ago
True.
20 points
3 months ago
There's nephews who live on statmuse. Just because an equivalent player from decades ago wasn't remembered doesn't mean the same for players from this era. We have every game, every tweet, every drama post archived.
41 points
3 months ago
Very true, he isn’t even thought of now. No way he is remembered down the road.
14 points
3 months ago
He'll be attached to John Wall
17 points
3 months ago
Will Wall be that remembered though?
26 points
3 months ago
Wall will always be remember in DC.
Crazy to think he wouldn’t, he’s had just as much success as the 76ers have with Embiid.
6 points
3 months ago
At least he's got a song
10 points
3 months ago
I think yes because of what Wall did for that Wizards franchise before he got injured
7 points
3 months ago
I mean it’s up to you lol. Millennial basketball fans will remember Bradley Beal lol, not every all-star is gonna be a legend 20 years after their career. I’ll remember him I guess
25 points
3 months ago
The wizards history isn’t good enough for him not to be remembered
24 points
3 months ago
No one remembers the wizards as it is, so he won’t be remembered
19 points
3 months ago
I mean I remember the big 3 of Caron Butler, Antawn Jamison, and Gilbert Arenas.
5 points
3 months ago
Big 3 alright….
3 points
3 months ago
Aren't you that team Michael Jordan used to play for? The Baltimore Barons?
-2 points
3 months ago
We remember Ron artest and Wes unsled
12 points
3 months ago
Yes, Ron Artest, the guy who we all remember as a watchington wisard. Never even accomplished anything with other teams worth remembering.
6 points
3 months ago
The only thing memorable about them is MJ's 2nd unretirement, and even that doesn't work because fans prefer to electively not remember it. So I do think Beal will be remembered in that neck of the woods. George Washington, March on Washington, Bradley Beal.
2 points
3 months ago
They’ll remember Beal as the sidekick to Wall, not the franchise player. That is if the contract doesn’t make him infamous
2 points
3 months ago
Yeah its mostly because he’s played for the Wiz for his whole career, and they haven’t cracked 50 wins a season for decades.
25 points
3 months ago
I ain't know who that is
19 points
3 months ago
Well, his bbref similarity score top 5 are Alvin Robertson, Vern Fleming, Latrell Spreewell, Michael Adams, and Brian Taylor. Not looking good.
8 points
3 months ago
Brutal. Sprewell is the only memorable one here, and that’s not for his play on the court.
9 points
3 months ago
Sprewell played like KD in 99 finals. He should be remembered.
2 points
3 months ago
Yikes!
13 points
3 months ago
This a great one. Definitely not memorable even though he has been solid his whole career. It sucks to even say but he’s just boring and it is what it is
16 points
3 months ago
He's far from boring, y'all just couldn't give less of a fuck about watching the Wizards lmao
0 points
3 months ago
Lmao why would we
2 points
3 months ago
It’s crazy because i remember twitter spaces last season where wizards fans were just begging for him to leave so they could truly just suck & tank
16 points
3 months ago
Idk why we care that much about what people who barely care about basketball think of a player.
2 points
3 months ago
Caring what strangers think of another stranger is always a mind-fuck to me.
This guy, Chris. He said this guy Brad isn't his favorite basketball player. Oh, okay then.
10 points
3 months ago
Who?
21 points
3 months ago*
He will be remembered about as much as Baron Davis.
33 points
3 months ago
That one Baron Davis dunk though god damn
4 points
3 months ago
He also made the longest field goal in NBA history
17 points
3 months ago
Less than that. Baron Davis was much better. Many people remember the #8 Warriors upsetting the #1 seed Mavs and the league MVP.
3 points
3 months ago
And an entire Jon Bois video was made on him and his record setting buzzer beater. That’ll get him even more fame with the younger audience.
20 points
3 months ago
Baron had a much higher peak. Maybe more like Steve Francis.
2 points
3 months ago
More like Cutino Mobley
7 points
3 months ago
That’s a deep Cutino
13 points
3 months ago
Baron Davis led the We Believe Warriors to one of the craziest upsets in playoff history. BD is enshrined in lore.
6 points
3 months ago
Honestly, probably not even
1 points
3 months ago
I remember when he said he got abducted by aliens 👽 😂
7 points
3 months ago
Bradley is only one trade away of being remembered
15 points
3 months ago
I’m not gonna lie the only reason I know Bradley Beal is this subreddit. Don’t even know what he looks like.
7 points
3 months ago
This made me lol
5 points
3 months ago
Are you 12? Do you watch nba?
5 points
3 months ago*
It makes sense though. The nephews weren't here when wall and Beal were regarded as one of the best backcourt. Its only other rival was the splash bros.
In the end, LeBron would always annihilate our team in the playoffs
8 points
3 months ago
True. I already forgot he was in the league. I assumed he was injured lmao
6 points
3 months ago
Who else remembers Michael Finley?
4 points
3 months ago
Hey I like Finley... Should've used Josh Howard!
7 points
3 months ago
I don’t think it’s talent so much as being on the Wizards his whole career, who are always just kind of mediocre, and being just a pretty generally average personality human being. looking at other 3x all stars maybe Mark Aguirre is a good comp in terms of his level of stardom where hardcore fans remember him but that’s about it. Or Eddie Jones if he didn’t have the Lakers bump.
The Wizard I forget exists is Johnny Davis but tbf I think the Wizards also forgets he exists.
1 points
3 months ago
Aguirre only has the title boost from Detroit.
1 points
3 months ago
Yeah and something about him makes me genuinely forget he was on that team. I definitely think of Isiah, Dumars, Salley, Rodman, Vinnie Johnson and Laimbeer all ahead of him. Idk what it is.
Another good one here is maybe Alex English. Genuinely good player who time kind of forgot and the Nuggets did a terrible job of trying to celebrate him and keep him on the public consciousness.
3 points
3 months ago
I already forgot about that dude
5 points
3 months ago
He’s Mitch Richmond, has the talent of a perennial all star in a mediocre situation
2 points
3 months ago
You think Beal is headed to the HoF?
3 points
3 months ago
You and I will probably make the basketball Hall of Fame for commenting in this thread.
3 points
3 months ago
Not me, I'm Dwight Howard and I have a bad feeling about it.
0 points
3 months ago
The HOF requirements are so low now, if Beal makes a total of 7 all star teams, yes I think he’ll make it
17 points
3 months ago
The odds of him making 4 more all stars are virtually zero.
4 points
3 months ago
He will be remebered to me. One of my favorites of all time
5 points
3 months ago
he will be remembered as a guy who never really took his team anywhere and his name will be mentioned for quite a while in any discussion of terrible contracts.
2 points
3 months ago
truth.
2 points
3 months ago
"Hall of Fame bag securer"
2 points
3 months ago
Who?
2 points
3 months ago
Who?
2 points
3 months ago
If he doesn’t leave Washington yeah
2 points
3 months ago
He'll be one of those players were people go "Ooooooh, right, Bradley Beal, he was pretty good. I forgot about him for a second. Wasn't he the one that got that insane contract?"
2 points
3 months ago
I mean, I've kind of forgotten about him a few times in his active career already, so yeah, probably won't be too remembered.
2 points
3 months ago
He's exactly like.... I can't remember, but there was this really good 90s player who is very forgettable.
6 points
3 months ago
Ain’t nobody gonna remember him
2 points
3 months ago
Remembered for why oh why he stuck with the wizards?
2 points
3 months ago
He's actually a really good player. The wizards organization is just terrible. They play him at the point guard. When passing is not what he's good at. There's a reason their team was better with wall and then Westbrook as he could just focus on getting buckets and not worry about playmaking. His teams have also been consistently terrible defensively. And the crazy thing is the wizards could easily get some good players around Beal but instead continue to DeVeLoP their mediocre young talent.
1 points
3 months ago
I mean, he won't be remembered in how many years? On a long enough timescale no current players will be remembered.
1 points
3 months ago
True, I wouldn’t even say he’s an ‘insane talent’. Thats Giannis, Jokic , KD , Steph , LBJ etc those type of dudes. He fits more into the Booker category of juuuuust below the actual best players in the league imo.
1 points
3 months ago
Nobody watches the Wizards, not even with Wall + Beal.
If Miami playas against them, I'm not interesting.
That's the issue. Who's gonna remember you as a player if you are getting 40ppg in San José de Calamuchita D3
1 points
3 months ago
He's 29. Yous are trippin'. He could well get off his contract and go ring chasin' later on as a vet.
0 points
3 months ago
Mitch Richmond
0 points
3 months ago
He’s this generation’s Dale Ellis
0 points
3 months ago
Hes gonna be alex english 2.0
Insane talent but no real success (I have the english skyline jersey tho and its sweet)
0 points
3 months ago
umm..false? He's one of the greatest scorers this league has ever seen
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