Tonight was not the night Bradley Beal was hoping to have. As the shorthanded Los Angeles Clippers fell to the Phoenix Suns 115-102, the shooting guard had his worst outing of the season, shooting just 2-14 from the field, looking like the boos from the arena were getting to him. During the post-game conference, however, he revealed that while the game might have been about payback for Suns fans, for Beal, it was something else entirely.

“It was another game,” Beal said when asked what it felt like to face the Suns again. “ I think y’all probably gonna blast a little bit more than I am, but it was another basketball game .” His tone was calm, clashing sharply with the emotion in the Mortgage Matchup Center as the crowd was filled with Suns fans who booed him every time he touched the ba

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