Bradley Beal does things in a meticulous way. He crushes oyster crackers while still in the plastic bag, then dumps them into a bowl of clam chowder. He eats noiselessly, and stops altogether when it’s his turn to engage in lunch conversation.
This is his quiet nature. Ask the 24-year-old Washington Wizards guard about what first attracted him to longtime girlfriend Kamiah Adams, and Beal will admit she approached him with her phone number.
“She’s really bold, but I’m really shy,” Beal said.
John Wall had to be the bold one, too. In 2010, a month before Wall was drafted first overall by the Wizards, he was in Los Angeles to watch the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League and to check out a high school shooter from St.