Beal top Preferred trade destination is......New Orleans (Rumor)

This in no way seems legit but frick it I'll blindly trust it anyway.

I don't mean you personally. Another of his Tweets says


Landon Buford
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Pelicans are on top of the list of Bradley Beal's desired teams.

Beal is saying the right things and working with the FO, in effort to extract maximum value.

Beal's desired teams include the Pelicans, Mavs, Heat, & the LA teams, per a league source.

#DCAboveAll #WontBowDown

Don't forget Beal is on $28,751,775 this season.

Lonzo and Bled would probably make salaries match, but Wizards would undoubtedly ask for NAW or Kira as well

Who dafuq is this guy

That is a very good point

Unless this Lando Calrissian guy is a big Pels Stan

If it is true I’m honestly not sure how I feel.

Beal is unbelievable offensively.

But the package we would have to give up to get him empties out coffers completely and...are we ready for a deal like this now?

And he has one year left. That is super troubling.

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Beal is saying the right things and working with the FO, in effort to extract maximum value.

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Why would he want the team he's going to to lose maximum assets?

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I may be alone in this,

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You're not. I think Beal makes the Pels better but doesn't solve the biggest problem of needing a lead guard. I've said it before, the Pels need a floor general, not a 3rd 20+ ppg scorer.

I have a lot of faith in Kira being that player, so if you can keep Kira I think it would work out. If you don't keep Kira I think you'd give up a lot of your margin for error to build a big 3 core that still needs the right role playing starters to work, instead of a big 3 core that's diverse enough to work with almost any set of role players.

I'd give up Lonzo/NAW/Hayes and 3-4 picks for Beal if he wink wink agrees to an extension. I'd like to keep JJ and Hart, but if you need to send them out as part of the deal to get the assets you need, I could live with that.

If/when Beal ever asks for trade, he's going to put out his list of destinations, and i'd be shocked if we were actually on it.

I also don't believe the appeal of chasing an 8th seed would do anything for Beal. He's been to the playoffs multiple times. Have to believe he'd want to go to a contender.

Thats why i'd be looking more at Lavine if I were Griffin. He's a little younger than Beal, will take less assets to get, and I think his expectations for success would actually be in line with our timeline.