Beal's exclusion from the team, in which sportswriters and broadcasters pick their best players from the NBA season, was one of the most contentious calls of the annual selection, making the shooting guard the only NBA player in history to miss out despite averaging at least 30 points and six assists per game.

While Beal playfully amplified posts supporting him for an outstanding season and congratulated Jayson Tatum, his close friend at the Boston Celtics who was selected for the third All-NBA team, his partner engaged in bitter exchanges with the public after making her views clear on Twitter.

"Bradley Beal is a f*cking All-Star and All-NBA," she wrote in capital letters, adding ten exclamations for the benefit of anyone unaware of her feelings after Beal was not named alongside the likes of Los Angeles Lakers legend LeBron James in the lineup.