No, the Knicks Should NOT trade for Bradley Beal

Beal has averaged 52 games played per season over the last four years, and will make an average of $52 million per season over the next four years.

The NBA Finals just ended, and we are still more than a week away from the draft and the start of free agency, so this should be a quiet time for the league, right?

Wrong. The Association is awesome because there is always something percolating. And on a lazy Wednesday afternoon in mid-June, the two NBA's two most plugged-in reporters let it be known that the Wizards and All-Star guard Bradley Beal have reached a "mutual understanding" and "intend to work together to find a trade." 

Interestingly enough, Alan Hahn declared earlier this week on ESPN that he expected the Knicks to be "very aggressive" in trying to get Beal if the Wiz made him available. 

"Put Beal next to Jalen Brunson, and you've got a backcourt that's one of the best in the league as far as scoring goes — very unstoppable," Hahn said on Get Up. "And he is at a point in his career where he's trying to be about winning. So, the Knicks have all the things that the Wizards would need — young players and draft picks."

While there's no denying Beal is a sharpshooter who would help New York put up points (he averaged 23.2 PPG last season while shooting a career-high 50.6% from the field), that's only part of the story.