“It’s a prime example to that conversation we had that day,” Wall told The Post. “We don’t get national exposure.”

After the Wizards finished off the Indiana Pacers, 111-104, a game in which Wall performed like a closer and scored 36 points, he spent time explaining why he publicly retweeted information about his team being bumped from an ESPN showcase game on Jan. 11. Wall didn’t sound crazy, just convinced about how the Wizards (15-16) are treated as a little brother in the league.

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On the same night when Pacers star Paul George received a $15,000 fine for essentially suggesting how the league is rigged against him, Wall’s belief that TV-schedule-makers overlook his team didn’t sound so absurd. As far as NBA conspiracy theories go, this one grew legs after Washington got one of its five nationally broadcast games taken away — even though the team currently is surging toward respectability and has climbed to within a half-game of the playoff picture.

“I know you got to be able to win,” Wall said. “We didn’t get off to a great start [like] we wanted to, but we do have an all-star that’s been in the All-Star Game three times: me. And hopefully I can be [an all-star] again, and hopefully we can add Brad [Beal] and somebody else. We had five [national games] at the beginning of the year, and now we have four. And you never know, they might take another one. I feel like it’s back to what I said before: If you don’t have League Pass or NBA TV, you don’t see the Wizards.”

To Wall’s point: He is a prime-time draw, and yet — who is watching?

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Last season, the Wizards made four appearances on ESPN and two on TNT but the additional exposure did not attract a greater audience. During those four ESPN broadcasts in 2015-16, Washington’s games averaged 1,397,000 viewers, a decline of 15 percent from the average ‘NBA on ESPN’ programming (1,652,000 viewers). Though ESPN slots games before the start of the season, it will often re-evaluate the schedule to feature a hotter ticket. Much like Jan. 11 — the channel opted to highlight Oklahoma City Thunder and point guard Russell Westbrook who is on a jaw-dropping stretch of triple-doubles. Due to the Wizards’ poor start, their under .500 record simply doesn’t have the same sizzle. ESPN declined comment for this story.

Even so, while Wall plays on a team currently with a losing record, he has shined.

Through 14 games in December, Wall has 10 double-doubles, including one Wednesday night in which he added a season-best 11 rebounds and nine assists (against five turnovers) to his 36 points. When it became evident that Bealwasn’t returning to the game because of a sprained right angle, Wall went from facilitating to scoring and finally carrying his team down the stretch. Wall wasn’t a superstar in the fourth quarter (1-for-3 shooting), but he still was special by putting pressure on the Pacers on the defensive end. He also attacked the basket and earned trips to the free throw line, hitting 9 of 10 in the fourth quarter.

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Still, as confident as Wall looked toeing the line for clutch free throws, a scattered serenade of “M-V-P” filling his ear, he admits to a self-conscious trait. Wall spends time searching for slights, on Twitter and from blogs, to find inspiration from what he perceives to be hate.

“Oh, for me, it’s easy to find anything that motivates me, because there’s always somebody [saying], ‘Oh, he’s not a top-five point guard! Oh, he’s not a top-25 player!’ ” Wall said. “I want to be the best. I want to be No. 1. That’s the mindset I have. That’s why I work so hard; that’s why I dedicate myself to what I do. It’s a lot more fun knowing I can work out and do the things that I wanted to do and not have to worry about injuries this season. It’s easy for me to find anything as motivation, even the little things that fans say to me: ‘Oh, he had eight turnovers this game and didn’t do well!’ That’s motivation for me to do a better job.

“Those are the types of things that fuel me to make me want to keep going,” he continued. “I motivate myself, but those other things get me over the hump.”

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With ESPN’s decision to feature Oklahoma City and Memphis over his Wizards’ game in Boston — the network can still add more Washington games in the future — Wall has found easy motivation. In his world, aliens will land before the Wizards get national recognition — but he will play on like everyone’s watching just the same.

“To be honest,” Wall responded when asked whether he felt the Wizards’ latest streak would earn them some respect, “I think the two years we made the playoffs and went to the second round, we come back the next year and still didn’t have that, I think we had maybe three or four NBA TV games.