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Gafford the 'lob threat' big man Wizards lacked in recent years

Bradley Beal has played with approximately 95 teammates over the course of his nine-year career, according to Basketball-Reference. Of those, only 19 or so list their primary position as center. So that doesn’t include trendy small-ball fives like Markieff Morris and Bobby Portis.

There’s really no reason this information should matter — except for the fact that when Beal says he hasn’t played with a player like center Daniel Gafford before, he isn’t lying.

“I haven’t had a lob threat in my whole career,” Beal said after the Wizards’ win Monday over the Utah Jazz. “I like the fact I can just throw the (darn) ball up to the rim and he can go get it, even if it’s a horrible pass.