{"id":700095,"date":"2021-01-28T10:47:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=700095"},"modified":"2021-02-03T09:08:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T14:08:59","slug":"bradley-beal-im-mad-about-losing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/news\/nba\/bradley-beal-im-mad-about-losing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradley Beal: &#8216;I&#8217;m Mad About Losing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bradley Beal&#8217;s scoring rampage continued on Wednesday night but the last-place Washington Wizards dropped their third straight contest. After the unsuccessful 47-point showing, Beal expressed displeasure with his situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked point blank if he was frustrated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/30792899\/bradley-beal-scores-47-points-frustrated-washington-wizards-lose-again\">post-game press conference<\/a>, Beal responded rhetorically: <em>is the sky blue?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beal has averaged 35.4 points, 5.3 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game so far this season but the Wizards remain last in the entire league with a 3-11 record. Often, the frustration is visible on Beal&#8217;s face after each game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>I just hate losing. I hate losing<\/em>,&#8221; Beal said. &#8220;<em>And I am going to continue to show pissed-off faces. I try to control them as much as I can, but I don&#8217;t like losing.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After signing a two-year contract extension in 2019, Beal&#8217;s deal runs through the 2022-23 season. He can opt out of the final season worth $37M if he decides that he&#8217;d rather hit free agency in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beal would have enough service time under his belt to sign a 35% max contract &#8211; the highest of the max contracts &#8211; whether he hits free agency in 2022 or 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course it may not take free agency for Beal&#8217;s situation to change and trade speculation has often come up in any discussion about his future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While there are no shortage of interested teams and fan bases, there are no specific teams linked to Beal thus far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bradley Beal&#8217;s scoring rampage continued on Wednesday night but the last-place Washington Wizards dropped their third straight contest. After the unsuccessful 47-point showing, Beal expressed displeasure with his situation. Asked point blank if he was frustrated in a post-game press conference, Beal responded rhetorically: is the sky blue? Beal has averaged 35.4 points, 5.3 rebounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":382,"featured_media":700102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,62493,62722],"tags":[9469,62523,105],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-700095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-newswire","category-washington-wizards","tag-bradley-beal","tag-mantle","tag-washington-wizards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700095"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700104,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700095\/revisions\/700104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700095"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=700095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}