tens of millions in fraud, otherwise known as the brad beal contract.
2025-26
Bradley Beal
LAC · G · #0
Unofficial: 2,322 comments, 2,678 short of the official minimum of 5,000. Among all 223 tracked players he would rank 6th most hated.
- PPG
- 8.2
- RPG
- 0.8
- APG
- 1.7
- GP
- 6
- Height
- 6′4″
- Weight
- 207 lb
- Age
- 33
- Born
- Jun 28, 1993
- Experience
- 13 yrs
- From
- Florida
Verdict
54.0%38.3%7.8%
54.0%Negative1,253 comments
38.3%Neutral889 comments
7.8%Positive180 comments
−46Net sentimentpositive minus negative
n=2,322 comments about Bradley BealUnofficial
Receipts
What the room said about Bradley Beal, verbatim: the highest-scoring comments in each class.
Exhibit 01Negative.PHX flair Exhibit 02Negative.LAL flair Beal is cooked lol
Exhibit 03Negative.PHX flair $20M of dead cap to not have Beal. Worth every penny
Method
A receipt is a top-scoring comment about Bradley Beal that cleared the classifier's confidence bar
and a second pass confirming it is about him. No usernames: the site judges players, not commenters.
Fans
Of what r/NBA says about Bradley Beal, his own Clippers fans are 63% negative, rival fans 53%, unflaired commenters 55%. Fewer than two fanbases have 200 comments about him, so no fanbase stands out.
62.6%Own fansLAC flair · 99 comments
52.9%Rival fansevery other flair · 1,392 comments
54.8%Unflairedno flair · 831 comments
Method
A fanbase is the flair its commenters wear. Flairs with fewer than 200 comments about Bradley Beal are left out of the lists;
the tick is his rate across every flaired comment, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.
Rooms
Bradley Beal was talked about most on the front page: 1,184 of his 2,322 comments, −45 net sentiment against −46 across his season. His harshest room was news posts, −45 on 33% of his comments; his warmest the front page.
Front page51% of his commentsWarmest52.07.21,184
News33% of his commentsHarshest52.77.5757
Method
A room is the kind of post a comment sat under: a game thread, the front page, a highlight. A room is drawn when it holds at least 200 comments about Bradley Beal; left out here: Post-game threads (143), Game threads (141), Highlights (79), Lowlights (8), Discussion posts (6), Daily chat thread (2). The bar is the room's share of his comments, its split the room's sentiment. Harshest and warmest are by net sentiment, positive minus negative, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.
Timeline
Over 4-week windows, the negative share of comments about Bradley Beal ran between 35% and 62%. His worst week was the week of Apr 20, 69% negative of 42 comments; his best the week of Jun 15, 17% positive. 16 of 40 weeks had fewer than 30 comments and are left off the line.
Method
Lines are 4-week rolling rates from summed counts (Σ negative ÷ Σ comments), drawn only where the window holds at least 30 comments. Dots are single weeks, sized by n. Bands follow the season calendar.
Games
The room talked about Bradley Beal in 1 of his 7 games, at least 20 comments each. Too few graded games on one side to split wins from losses.
—In winstoo few graded wins
−57In losses69% neg · 12% pos · 77 comments
−46His season54% neg · 8% pos · 2,322 comments
| Date | Phase | Opp | Result | Min | Pts | Reb | Ast | FG | 3P | TOV | +/− | P/R/A | Comments | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6 | @ PHXL 102–115 | L 102–115 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2-14 | 1-5 | 2 | -23 | 5/1/1 | 575 | 11 points harsher than his season, from 77 comments. |