Beal refuses to ask for All-Star votes: 'My game should speak for itself'

If Bradley Beal somehow makes a miraculous comeback to get voted into his first NBA All-Star Game, he doesn't want it to be a result of begging fans on social media.

"If it has anything that says, ‘Vote for me,’ I’m not posting it. I’m just not posting it," said Beal, according to The Washington Post's Candace Buckner. "That’s definitely outside of my box. That’s, like, a few boxes over. I feel like that’s kind of being conceited in a way. Not in a negative way, necessarily, but to me that’s just a little bit of conceit. Like, vote for me? I don’t agree with it."

The first All-Star returns were released last week, with Beal (71,079) ranked ninth in the Eastern Conference backcourt race, well behind leaders Kyrie Irving (802,834) and DeMar DeRozan (259,368).

Both the Wizards and Beal's agent have asked him to push for votes on his personal accounts, yet the 24-year-old guard refuses to budge on his stance.

"I just feel like I shouldn’t have to do that just to get votes," he explained. "My game should speak for itself. I mean, it’s not like we’re running for president ... We just want to play. That’s all. If the accolades come, they come. And if they don’t? They don’t."

The only exception Beal made was in the form of a video tweet involving pandas, in relation to the "Big Panda" nickname he earned from teammates years ago for his aggressive eating habits.

Beal felt the post was cheesy enough to not bother or offend anyone. That's as far as he'll go on Twitter, though.

Fan voting accounts for 50 percent of the total vote, with players and select media members accounting for the other half.

Beal ranks eighth in the East in scoring at a career-high 23.6 points per game.