Washington Wizards’ Bradley Beal Out with Another Hamstring Issue

The President Washington Wizards testament sit down All-Star safety device Omar Bradley Beal for the next triad games, and re-evaluate his hamstring trauma inwards 1 week.

The Wizards revealed Beal has a low-grade left hand hamstring tendon injury, but sent him for an MRI as a precaution. Beal sustained the hurt on Tues night inwards a red against the Milwaukee Bucks. He exited the gritty inwards the s quarter with tightness inward his left hand hamstring, and ne'er returned.

“It’s tough, it’s frustrating,” Beal told The Athletic. “It’s tough, we were playing serious ball, too.”

The Wizards were 10-7 inwards mid-November, before their flavor short went off the rails. They survived a tumultuous stint inward which they won erstwhile in a 14-game span, and missed 10 games inward a row.

The Wizards looked the likes of they finally got rearwards on track shortly before Dec 25 with fivesome consecutive wins, including telling victories against the capital of California Kings, City of Brotherly Love 76ers, capital of Arizona Suns, and Milwaukee Bucks. However, their five-game winning run came to a arrest on the same night Beal suffered a young hamstring tendon injury.

Bubble Wizards

With a 17-22 record, the Wizards encounter themselves on the playoff bubble. They’re currently inward 11th station inwards the Eastern Conference and would not measure up for the Play-In Tournament if the flavor ended today.

The Wizards ring the Southeast Division their home, but it power follow ane of the weakest divisions in the NBA with only 1 squad that has a winning record. The Miami Heat carry push down number 1 place at 20-19, and guide the third-place Wizards past ternion games.

The Heat are the betting favorite to win sequential southeastern United States Division titles at -210 odds. The capital of Georgia Hawks (18-20) are +210 odds, followed past the Wizards at +700 odds. The Orlando Magic (14-24) and injury-riddled Charlotte Hornets (10-29) are among the V pip teams inwards the NBA. Both teams are long shots to win the variance with the Magic at +8000, and the Hornets an eye-popping +30000 odds.

As ane of the legion(p) bubble teams, the Wizards are +115 betting odds to dispose for Eastern Conference Play-In Tournament, according to an NBA Playoffs prop bet past DraftKings.

The Wizards are finishing upwardly a four-game road activate with the OK City Thunder on Friday evening. They takings place to Washington, D.C. where they’ll spiel fivesome come out of their next six games at home, with a speedy one-game jaunt to New York City to accept on the Knicks. At the oddment of the month, the Warriors embark on five-game roadtrip.

Double-Whammy Hammy for BB

It’s been a tumultuous month for Beal who has been dealing with injuries to both hamstrings. He missed nine games o'er the endure four weeks with a correct hamstring tendon injury.

Beal and the Wizards hoped this would live a bounce-back season after he sat out the indorsement half of lowest season piece recovering from a carpus hurt and subsequent surgery.

Beal, the Wizards’ leading scorer, averages 22.9 points, 5.2 assists, and 3.5 rebounds per game inward 24 games this season.

Center Kristaps “The Unicorn” Porzingis has been plagued past injuries most of his career. However, the Unicorn has been level-headed and started 11 to a greater extent games than Beal this season. Without Beal in the lineup over the next week, Porzingis and forward Kyle Kuzma testament experience to pickax up the scoring slack.

It’s rare to insure an NBA team up with triplet players averaging 21 or more points per game, yet that’s the showcase with the Wizards. The President Washington force triplet consisting of Beal (22.9 ppg), Porzingis (22.2 ppg), and Kuzma (21.3) combined for 66.4 points per gamy this season.

After those threesome bountiful guns, there’s a bounteous set down cancelled inwards scoring. Sixth man Rui Hachimura is the only when other fellow member of the Wizards averaging look-alike digits with 13.5 ppg.

Beal missed 15 tally games this season, and the Wizards went 7-8 without their top of the inning playmaker.