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Wizards reportedly expected to offer max deal to Bradley Beal

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The Washington Wizards are expected to offer Bradley Beal a five-year max deal when the free-agent negotiating period begins July 1, sources told the Washington Post on Friday.

Beal has repeatedly said he deserves a maximum contract, and that he'd like to stay with the Wizards. However, he also has said that he'd look elsewhere if they didn't offer a max deal.

"I want to be valued the right way," Beal told the Post earlier this week. "I feel like I'm a max player and that's what I'm looking for. If Washington can't meet that requirement then I may be thinking elsewhere. I'm pretty sure that they probably won't (let me go). At the end of the day, that's where I want to be. I think a deal will probably get done but you just never know."

Early estimates for players with zero to six years of NBA experience have the 2016-17 max salary coming in at about $21.6 million. A max five-year contract from the Wizards would pay Beal roughly $124.2 million, while a four-year offer sheet from another team will come in at $92.2 million.

Beal averaged a career-high 17.4 points last season, but played in a career-low 55 games. He has been injury-prone during his four years in the NBA, playing in 247 out of a possible 328 regular-season games.

"I hear about it all time, but that doesn't define me as a player," Beal told the Post earlier this week. "That won't stop me from growing as a player and it won't stop me from being who I am. The injury thing, that's behind me. I'm moving forward. I'm past it."

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