Beal said that he knows “it’s a lot of noise” and “it can be distracting at times,” but told Green that “you know as well as I know it’s nothing better than grinding it out and kind of doing it on your own.” He said he loves and respects that Washington “hasn’t been shopping me,” and rather been “hanging up the phone” when teams call about him. He continued: “It’s kind of funny. I’ve never been a free agent. It’s kind of reminding me of college recruiting. Like I hear every single game somebody’s recruiting me. Someone’s like tagging on me, whether it’s another player or whether it may be a coach or whoever it may be, somebody’s chit-chatting: ‘B, what you want to do this summer? What you doing this summer?’”