If anyone on the Wizards were to make the All-Star Game roster this year, it would have been Bradley Beal. Given his nearly impossible-to-guard offensive play and all-around consistency, many thought it was a foregone conclusion. But when the NBA announced its list of All-Star reserve players on Thursday, Beal’s name wasn’t there.

The Wizards community, Beal’s fiancée, and even opposing players have criticized the league for the snub.

While players, fans, and media vote on the ten players in the starting lineup, the 14 reserves are selected by the coaches. Beal’s agent, Mark Bartelstein, has pointed fingers at the Eastern Conference coaches, calling them “robotic” in a statement to the Washington Post. The coaches are partial to players on winning teams, he says.

“I think they’ve sent a horrible message,” says Bartelstein, who helped Beal secure a two-year, $72 million extension with the Wizards. “The idea of the all-star game is to reward the very best players and Brad made a decision this summer to be loyal to a franchise … He could’ve made the choice to be a bandwagon jumper and just go on and join a higher-level team and he would’ve been guaranteed in the All-Star game. But he didn’t want to do that.”

Beal wasn’t the only player to be snubbed. Phoenix Suns’ Devin Booker, who has set all kinds of records this season, also missed the cut—and some point to the Suns’ losing record as the reason. With Booker’s five consecutive 30-point games, many players have also criticized that decision.

The Wizard’s 16-31 record also isn’t pretty, but Beal has played like he’s on a Finals-bound team, and his supporters say that should take precedent in deciding who gets an All-Star nod. While the Wizards may be 11th in the conference, Beal is still the sixth-best scorer in the entire league.

Beal had some choice words of his own after the announcement: “I’m a little pissed about it, but I know how I am,” he told NBC Washington after Thursday night’s 121-107 win against the Charlotte Hornets. “I was kind of expecting it, honestly. It’s disrespectful, but the real ones know.”

Even some of his opponents agreed.

“One of the toughest players to guard,” wrote Hornets forward Miles Bridges, sharing a video of Beal sinking a jumper in front of him. “It’s sick he’s not an All-Star this year.”

Wizards head coach Scott Brooks echoed that sentiment. “He’s an All-Star—he just did not get picked,” Brooks said at press conference. “I mean, the players voted [for] him too, so I look at the players. The players know a lot more about who plays well and who doesn’t play well.”

The All-Star Game, on February 16, will see “Team LeBron” face off against “Team Giannis” in a somewhat-confusing new style of play that incorporates a Kobe Bryant tribute: Teams will have to reach a score 24-points higher than the highest score in the third quarter. (If Team LeBron leads 100-99 after the third quarter, for example, the teams will race to get to 124 points in an un-timed fourth quarter, in honor of Bryant’s #24 jersey).

The starters include the usual cast of Jimmy Butler, Chris Paul, and Russell Westbrook and first-timers Bam Adebayo and Rudy Gobert.

The snub to Beal comes as a blow to the Wizards, too, since the team has had a player selected to the All-Star team every season since 2014. Still, Beal congratulated everyone who did make the team, and said he’s focusing on what’s next. He told reporters on Thursday, “I’m just going to keep competing, and I’m going to try to get my team to the playoffs, for sure. I don’t play for anyone else’s approval.”