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On HoopsMatic over the past 24 hours, Bam Adebayo showed up in 6.2% of all trades built. Among those, he was most often sent to Sacramento (14.5%), Cleveland (9.2%), and Denver (9.2%), and the return pieces that came up most often were Evan Mobley (9.2%), Zach LaVine (9.2%), and Jaren Jackson Jr (7.9%).
Eric Nehm: FINAL: Heat 145, Pacers 125 - Antetokounmpo 31pts/17reb/10ast - Adebayo 27pts/9reb/3ast - Thompson 25pts/3ast - Larsson 18pts/3reb/3ast - Mitchell 15pts/6reb/11ast - Wiggins 12pts The Heat are now 2-4 on the season. They start a 5-game West Coast trip on Monday vs. the Lakers.
Haslem is in Adebayo’s corner through it all. “I think Bam understands what comes with the territory,” Haslem, 46, said. “He understands what comes with this journey. He understands what comes with the accolades and the 83 points, and what comes with the gold medals and the contracts. He understands what comes with that. It’s not all going to be good. So you have to take the good and the bad, and he understands that. But I always tell him, it doesn’t matter what they call you. It only matters what you answer to.” But Haslem is also honest in his assessment of Adebayo’s play when he needs to be. “That doesn’t mean when Bam is not playing well or Bam is not doing his job, I’m not honest with Bam,” Haslem continued. “I’m not soft on Bam.”
NBABase: Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bam Adebayo currently have a -31.6 net rating in 71 minutes together on the floor. The Heat are 0–4. Yikes.
With Adebayo struggling individually and the Heat still winless to enter the first full week of the season, the star big man took a jab at the media for blaming him for Miami’s rough start. "My shot's not going in. I'm not going to overthink that," Adebayo said after their 113-109 home loss on Monday against the Dallas Mavericks. "It's funny how the outside noise wants to make me the scapegoat. "When the energy shifts, be prepared for that."
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Adebayo has yet to establish himself as Giannis’ co-star, averaging just 11.8 points on 40% shooting. He finished with just eight points on 3-of-10 shooting against the Mavs across 30 minutes. "I got expectations for myself, but obviously, the outside noise has expectations for us. For me, I know what I'm capable of. I'm not going to overthink that," Adebayo added on why he feels he is being targeted by criticisms. "Like I said, we're on for right now. I'd rather it be right now than midway through the season or in April, because what if we go on a 10-game winning streak? Then how does the noise change?"
ClutchPoints: “Nah, I mean the media gonna be the media. You know, they're gonna try to bury you when you down, but then it's quiet when you up... You expect that from the media.” Bam Adebayo on whether he’s spoken to Giannis Antetokounmpo about all the outside noise 👀 (via @ZachWeinberger)
Zachary Weinberger: #Heat drop to now 0-4 on the season as they lose 113-109 to the Mavs. An absolute frustrating loss as the team has yet to get in the winning column. Giannis with 29 points, 15 rebounds, 11 assists. Davion w/ 21, Bam with 8 points (3-10 FG) and 8 rebounds.
When then-two-time NBA MVP LeBron James joined Wade in Miami in 2010, their first season as teammates wasn’t always smooth. “We had this in Miami with Bron and I,” Wade said on the latest episode of his podcast, “WY Network by Dwyane Wade.” “Bron came, and I think it took us about a year before Bron could be LeBron. Him and I were back and forth. ‘Hey, you shot two shots in a row.’ And it wasn’t like that, but it was like that. It was like, ‘All right, I don’t want to shoot too much. I don’t want to do too much.’ We kind of had to get out of that.”
“I want to see Giannis come down and say ‘Hey Bam, I got this. This is my show, I’m going to make sure we all eat, though,’” Wade said on his podcast. “Bam has been talking about Defensive Player of the Year and not getting the respect. I think this is the year Bam turns his attention to being the overall player in our league more so than ‘We need Bam to score 83.’ There’s going to be some nights we’re going to need Bam to knock down the [three] ball. There’s going to be some nights we’re going to go to Bam and he’s going to lead this unit. ‘But, Bam, I need you to be a monster on the other end of the floor and let me handle all the playmaking and all the up and down.’ Are they going to have that conversation? Are they going to look at each other and be like, ‘Hey, it’s my team, respectfully, but I’ll make sure everybody else gets involved.’ “Or is going to be, ‘Oh, I don’t want to step on Bam’s toes because he’s the franchise guy, he’s a guy whose jersey will be up there. He is a guy who can be a future Hall of Famer, all those things. He was here before me.’ Or is Giannis going to be like, ‘Hey, there’s a reason why they came and got me. Let me be that reason.’
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Miami Heat falls to 0-3 after 115-110 loss to a banged-up Charlotte team, as Giannis Antetokounmpo scores just 14 points, fouling out in 25 minutes. Bam Adebayo had 20 points and eight rebounds. Brandon Miller led the way for Charlotte with 34 points on 29 shot attempts.
Eric Nehm: FINAL: Timberwolves 131, Heat 106 - Antetokounmpo 35pts/6reb - Adebayo 15pts/7reb/4ast/3stl - Wiggins 11pts/2reb - Mitchell 11pts/10ast - Thompson 10pts The Heat are now 0-1 this season. Antetokounmpo put up great numbers, but Miami just didn't have any answers defensively.
There are plenty of reasons Antetokounmpo was interested in making the move to the Heat this past summer after spending the first 13 seasons of his NBA career with the Milwaukee Bucks. But Heat coach Erik Spoelstra believes Heat center Bam Adebayo was one of the biggest driving forces behind Antetokounmpo’s interest in Miami. “Our culture was a selling point to the guys we brought in,” Spoelstra said recently during an appearance on “The Dan Le Batard Show.” “But equally as much of a recruiting pitch or selling point was Bam Adebayo. That’s not about him getting on the phone and recruiting guys. It wasn’t about that. It’s about the deep respect he has around the league, that everyone sees him as a winner and a guy that’s about all the right things and a great teammate and a guy that impacts winning at the highest level. That intrigued Giannis. “That’s the influence Bam has that you could compare to Dwyane [Wade] that everybody thought ‘if I go there, that leads to winning.’ And I think that’s the way people view Bam.”
Antetokounmpo enjoyed his first training camp and preseason as Adebayo’s teammate, comparing him to his older brother Thanasis Antetokounmpo. Antetokounmpo then pointed out that Adebayo and Thanasis have the same July 18 birthday. “I love playing with Bam,” Antetokounmpo said. “I just love interacting with him. He has the same personality as my older brother. They were born on the same day. His personality is familiar to me. I love being around him. I love playing with him. I think the more we get to know one another, the better it’s going to be.”
