Bradley Beal pleads to Ted Leonsis to not move the Wizards out of Washington D.C.

It doesn’t get any easier, but Booker is trying to keep perspective. “I’ve been through worse than this,” Devin Booker told Bleacher Report. “Remember those first five years for me? I’ve seen this before. I trust everybody in here. We have the talent to turn it around. I’m not too discouraged, but there’s a pep in our step now. We know we have some work to clean up. It’s better to go through this now than the end of the season.” “The night of [a loss] is always frustrating,” Booker told B/R. “But it always feels better when we all get back together and get in the gym and start cleaning things up. Looking at the history of who we have around here. The likes of Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal and a championship coach in Coach Vogel, I trust everybody in here.” -via Bleacher Report / December 23, 2023

Duane Rankin: #Suns injury report at #Kings: Nassir Little (orbital fracture) AVAILABLE. Josh Okogie (hip) QUESTIONABLE. Bradley Beal (ankle), Jusuf Nurkic (personal reasons) and Damion Lee (knee) OUT. -via Twitter @DuaneRankin / December 21, 2023

Bradley Beal: “But on the same foot, having a new conversation with the front office, it was, I don’t want to say ‘a sigh of relief,’ but it was kind of like addressing the elephant in the room in some ways. It kind of was like popping a big balloon that kind of inflated — like, ‘What are we doing?’ It was kind of like getting out of limbo. “So, to hear that they wanted to go in the direction of building younger and moving me to a potential contender — it was tough to hear. But in the same light, I kind of embraced it and just looked at it as another opportunity for me to look at a new chapter in my career, as tough a decision as it was.” -via The Athletic / December 18, 2023