Bradley Beal: Draft Profile

Bradley Beal is one of the most gifted athletes in the NCAA. For a year that was dominated at the power forward position, Beal at the shooting guard was still able to build up a reputation that he is an elite player in the league. Standing at just 6-3, Beal is still able to create space for himself and shoot over the larger defenders. This season he averaged 14.6 points per game and 6.5 rebounds per game. He had a great year and like some of the other top draft prospects he is a freshman. The NBA does look at the skills and potential of the players but they also factor in how many years that the player could stay in the league. Beal being only a freshman would have a lot of time to prove himself in the NBA. If you were able to catch any of the NCAA Tournament you would have seen that the 7 seed Florida Gators were able to make a charge to the Elite Eight with a win over a top knotch Marquette team. Beal was able to league that brigade by scoring at least 14 points and 6 rebounds in each of his games. He also had a few games with high numbers in the rebounding and assists department. As you can see from the stats he was one of the better rebounding guards in the nation which the NBA teams can take into consideration. He is projected to go 7th overall in the draft to the Portland Trail Blazers who have Raymond Felton and Jamal Crawford at the guards right now. I believe that he will be selected the pick before that to the Toronto Raptors. Thier team has really been strugling and might be considered the worst team in the league. They honestly have no guards so they will need to draft either Beal or Jeremy Lamb, from Uconn. He might not be to happy up with them Raptors but truth is, that team needs him.

Bradey Beal, guard for Florida