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Bradley Beal deserves respect. He’s sure not getting support from his Wizards teammates.

If you’re assigning blame to Bradley Beal for the Wizards 14-24 record, stop it. Criticizing a team’s best and most productive player when the team fails is one of the dumber things NBA observers do.

Beal has his flaws, of course, but he’s leading the NBA in scoring, he’s three points per 100 possessions more efficient than average, and even with the high usage rate, he plays mostly within the team’s offensive structure. In addition to the scoring, he’s second on the team and 30th in the league in playmaking (measured by Ben Taylor’s box creation metric).