Washington Wizards: 3 Reasons Bradley Beal was snubbed from the 2020 All-Star Game

Frontcourt Favoritism

Let’s just call it like it is. There was some real frontcourt favoritism in the All-Star reserve selections.

Of the seven available reserve spot, the maximum number of frontcourt players that could have been chosen was five. And five were chosen: Bam Adebayo, Jimmy Butler, Khris Middleton, Dontas Sabonis, and Jayson Tatum.

Kyle Lowry and Ben Simmons were the only backcourt reserves chosen by the coaches. And although it’d be great to see Bradley Beal playing in Chicago over all of those guys, it’s tough to argue that Beal should definitely be in over any of them. Take a look for yourself…

Frontcourt Reserves

• Bam Adebayo: 16.0 points, 10.4 rebounds, 4.7 assists, 62.5 TS%
• Jimmy Butler: 20.2 points, 6.9 rebounds, 6.4 assists, 58.1 TS%
• Khris Middleton: 20.2 points, 5.9 rebounds, 3.9 assists, 62.4 TS%
• Domantas Sabonis: 18.0 points, 12.8 rebounds, 4.6 assists, 58.1 TS%
• Jayson Tatum: 21.5 points, 6.9 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 54.2 TS%

Backcourt Reserves

• Kyle Lowry: 19.9 points, 4.6 rebounds, 7.3 assists, 58.3 TS%
• Ben Simmons: 16.6 points, 7.7 rebounds, 8.3 assists, 60.4 TS%

Those other averages are good, so are Beal’s…

Bradley Beal

• Bradley Beal: 28.7 points, 4.5 rebounds, 6.4 assists, 57.6 TS%

The All-Star Game is supposed to feature the league’s best players. For better or for worse, it looks like this year it’ll include the best teams’ best players.

Beal seemed to take the news pretty personally. The same night he was snubbed, he went out and dropped 34 points in a win over the Charlotte Hornets, adding nine rebounds, and nine assists, and skipping out on any post-game comments. Beal was balling before, but if this snubbing inspires him to take it up a notch, the rest of the league better run for cover.