Bradley Beal might have left the Washington Wizards, however he nonetheless has one eye on his former workforce and isn’t proud of a major growth this week.
The Phoenix Suns guard wrote in his Andscape diary about Wizards proprietor Ted Leonsis, who this week introduced plans to maneuver each the Wizards and Washington Capitals to a brand new enviornment in northern Virginia, thus leaving the District of Columbia itself. The plan has been criticized by these with ties to Washington and Beal was amongst them.
“D.C., I’m right here with you. I’m with you all. There isn’t any transferring to Virginia. What’s that, [Wizards owner] Ted [Leonsis]? We love you to loss of life. We perceive what you wish to do and are attempting to do. However you possibly can’t take the workforce out of D.C,” Beal wrote. “It’s Chocolate Metropolis. As a league, we want it. It has to remain in D.C. now. The cash? Hear, it’s out of my palms and out of my management. I ain’t acquired nothing to do with that. Hopefully [Washington] mayor [Muriel] Bowser can work one thing out with you.”
Beal in contrast the proposed transfer to the Washington Commanders transferring to Maryland. He additionally referred to as on Leonsis to rebuild Capital One Area downtown.
Beal was intensely loyal to the Wizards and he was solely traded this previous offseason after each side agreed to maneuver on. His opinion is not going to carry any actual weight in Washington anymore, however Wizards followers could be heartened by it.
The Wizards are simply 5-23 on the season after buying and selling away most of their expertise through the offseason. They don’t precisely have a lot fan goodwill proper now.
