Four years ago, with the third pick in the 2012 NBA Draft, Washington Wizards fans were very enamored with drafting a young shooting guard out of Florida in Bradley Beal.
Beal, then 19, was compared to a variety of NBA players, including Eric Gordon, Marcus Thornton, and future Hall-of-Famer Ray Allen.
Although he’s probably closest to Gordon, the comparison to Allen always stuck in fans’ minds because of the Hall-of-Fame resume he put together, and Beal himself welcomed the comparison before playing a second of college basketball.