It took one year for Pierce to make the …

It took one year for Pierce to make the Wizards his team — and it took shorter than that for him to note the group should never have been his at all. Beal, a respecter of elders, hushed in the moment. Once the lecture was over, the 21-year-old headed to the showers. There, the man he calls his favorite teammate ever played the role of therapist. “Brad said, ‘Man, you know, P always talks to us about yada, yada, yada. But he’ll mess around and do the same shit,’” Garrett Temple, who played for the Wizards from 2012 to 2016, told The Athletic. “You know what I’m saying, man?’” Temple’s feedback? Give it right back to Pierce.