Edrice Femi \”Bam\” Adebayo is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats before being selected by the Heat with the 14th overall pick in the 2017 NBA draft. He was named an NBA All-Star and voted to theNBA All-Defensive Second Team during the 2019–20 season.
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Edrice Femi \”Bam\” Adebayo is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats before being selected by the Heat with the 14th overall pick in the 2017 NBA draft. He was named an NBA All-Star and voted to theNBA All-Defensive Second Team during the 2019–20 season. He is of African American and Yoruba descent and was born in Newark, New Jersey to a Nigerian father and an African-American mother. As a child, he was given the nickname ‘Bam Bam’ by his mother when, while watching The Flintstones at age one, he flipped over a coffee table in a manner similar to the show’s character Bamm-Bamm Rubble.
In January 2016, he played in the 2016 McDonald’s All-American Game and Jordan Brand Classic, and was rated a five-star recruit and considered one of the best high school prospects of the 2016 class. On June 22, 2017, he signed his rookie scale contract with the Heat, and joined the team for the 2017 Summer League. In his rookie season, he appeared in 69 games for the Heat and averaged 6 points and 5 rebounds per game.
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