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Washington Wizards Season Outlook 2016-17: How Bradley Beal Can Justify his Contract

Ever since being picked third overall in 2012, Bradley Beal has infuriated Washington Wizards fans.

He has shown enough flashes of his vast potential to receive a five-year, $128 million contract this past off-season, but has not played enough games, or consistently enough in those games, to truly justify the big payday.

Although he has been a solid player since his rookie year, he hasn’t yet made “the jump” into the echelons of stardom.

Last year, in a career-low 55 games, of which only 35 were starts, Beal averaged a career-high 17.