Skip to main content Bradley Beal pushed his way into the NBA's elite, and his All-Star Game start was validation Ava Wallace, The Washington Post March 7, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal, shown in February, was voted into his first All-Star Game this season.Washington Post photo by Jonathan Newton Bradley Beal tossed around a few different theories one recent afternoon, trying to talk through the one thing that has been gnawing at him, just a little, for about a month - ever since the first round of all-star fan voting was released and he saw his name atop a list of the highest-profile guards in the NBA's Eastern Conference.