Washington Wizards: 3 bold predictions for the coming season

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2. It’s Bradley Beal’s turn to be an All-Star

Bradey Beal is coming off one of the most egregious snub seasons in NBA history. He didn’t make the All-Star roster for the Eastern Conference and received no All-NBA accolades in spite of averaging 30.5 points, 6.1 assists and 4.2 rebounds in 36.0 minutes per game.

His inattentive defense was held against him by voters, but let’s be honest, a non-zero percentage of award voters have no business in that role anyway (here’s looking at you, Greg Logan). It was too easy to ding Beal for playing on what was a pretty bad team outside of him and Bertans, and a bad defensive squad from top to bottom.

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This season it’s going to be harder to overlook Beal. The Wizards should win a lot more games and while the defense is still going to be an issue on this roster, voters aren’t going to hold that against him if his team wins half its games rather than a third of them.

He also deserves credit for wanting to stick to it with this team, not requesting a trade even though there may be greener grass and easier accolades elsewhere. Assuming health isn’t an issue, expect him to get both an All-Star spot (even though there won’t be an All-Star Game) and All-NBA accolades by season’s end.

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