Star-Crossed: The Dichotomy In The DC.

Star-crossed: The Dichotomy In The D.C.

 The Wizard’s Instagram Shared Two Post This Week Promoting Their back court duo, of Russell West brook And Bradley Beal.  At this stage in his Career any promotion Westbrook should be received with comical appreciation. This Satins Beal’s Promotion, Given That He’s The Sole Bright Spot for What Has Been another Dismal Season for The Wizards And Now That He Is On The Trade Radar The Bolstering Of Grandeur Could Only Serve to Increase Washington’s Return On A deal. These Are two Of The Most Recognized Names In The Game Of, Basketball But Their astral Trajectories are Not In Line.

Let us flashback In 2018, a Simpler time. No mask, No Pandemics, No Lockdowns, No NBA Bubble, Just Young Hearts Running Free, I am not crying, there are onions in here. No Time To Dwell On The Past, AS I transition into Speaking of the Past. One of Those Young Souls a Turbo Charge Russel Westbrook, With Sweat, Gatorade, Statistic In His Eyes. Three Major storylines Dominated 2018 NBA Sphere Of Conversations:  Lebron’s Potential, and eventually disembark From Cleveland (I wrote about That), Golden States Warriors bid To repeat as champions…, And most eminently The Russel Westbrook Triple Double Express way, Coming To A Station Near you. It was a statical deluge of data that drained down in all dimension of discussion. The Details Have Been Chronicled exhaustively Here The Link To My Write Up 2018, Ill Link That Right... OH Yeah it Is Gone. What Still Remains Is The History that Westbrook Made. In Short Westbrook became the first player in NBA History to Average a triple double Twice. This Feat Seems Minor now Because Westbrooks Triple Double Onslaught. It Completely Devalued The Magnitude Of a Stat Line so Rear It only happened One season averaging a triple Double Only Occurred Once Before. Hold That Image Of Grandeur In Orbit as We Shift Polarity. Fast Forward To 2021, Please… The Tears again, It has Been Hard, 2018 Come Back. The Gravity of That star is now collapsing in on itself. We have seen this before. Star guards unable to retain Magnetic Force On The Leagues attention. Chris Paul, Vince Carter, even Shades Of D. Wade, Star Guards fading into a supernova and dispersing the leagues galaxy. His Stint in Houston Was Unremarkable, Even by COVID-19 shortened season standards and through fifteen games his output appears to be more of the same. With Bradley Beal On The Trade Block, and most certainly And A Young Core Of Deni Adjiva, Rui Hachimura And for the second season in a row Westbrook Could find himself in a third uniform in as many seasons and with Bradley Beal On the trade Market, Westbrooks Salary Near The First Tear Level, He Is Very well On His Way To Another Uniform This Coming Season. If It Were Not for The Year That Well Be Known Further as 2020, 2018 would have Felt Like Yesterday. Like A Moment Ago. It Is Known That The Lights we See In The Night Sky Are emanating From stars That Have already Passed On; They Are for all intense in purposes, Ghost. We Are Now witness the passing of this star, figuratively of course, unless the 2020 continues.

This Play Is in Stark Contrast To His Backcourt Partner Bradley Beal.

The Trade Rumor Cycle. Who remembers The Undersized, shaky handle, inconsistent effort Shooting Guard entering the 2012 NBA Draft Out of Florida? I Do and He Is A Balling. If watch Florida Basketball in 2012 You Probably Remember Them Losing To Kentucky, Because That is What I Remember, And Patrick Young Because Dude was a Beast. But Under The Watch Of Billy Donavan Was A Highly Touted shooting Guard Out Of Missouri Still Cutting His Teeth For The Gators In Bradley Beal averaged around 15 points and shoot the ball extremely well. Well, enough to secure the 3rd pick in that year’s draft. Flash Forward, again, Who Put These Onions Here- Squidward.  If you swap Beal’s teammates out with 4 of those generic 2k John Smith Randoms the Results for the Wizards Would Remain Relatively the same. Blowouts And Gaudy Stats For. The 6’5 wing is leading the in scoring at 34.7 PPg. I am Not A Supporter of the Idea That A Team Could waste A players prim e Year But, in This case, I would have To defer on That. Beal’s Offensive output is shackled by underdeveloped young talent a stat padding inefficient backcourt partner, which has been the case his whole career it seems. There is no way the trade passes and Beal remain in Washington, and The Early indication are a collective of Three, warriors, Heat, Mavs.

Warriors:

I was surprised but intrigue to find out the warriors were interested in Beal’s services. The backcourt dynamics work, with Steph Curry still chefing But the Trade-Off would be one of grand Sacrifice, There Could Be No deal Done Between These Teams That Do not Involve Sending Klay Thompson for Salary Match Or Andrew Wiggins And The Warriors Draft Selections For the foreseeable future. A Backcourt Tandem of Westbrook And Wiggins would be Unpalatable Basketball far any View But Would Go A long Way I Secure The Top Pick Jalen Green, For The Wizards, And push The Warriors right Back Into Title Contention.