Getting selected in the Top 3 in the NBA draft is quite the feat. On a positive note, you just earned the biggest payday of your life to that point, but that doesn’t come without an equal amount of pressure and people quick to criticize should things not work out right away.
The Wizards selected Bradley Beal in that position in 2012 in hopes of building the next young and promising backcourt with him and John Wall. Beal, with the reputation as the next sharpshooter coming out of college to go along with the speedy Wall, would give the opposition fits for years to come - or so Washington hoped.