‘It’s up to the voters if I’m DPOY, not me’ – Bam Adebayo | NBA Today

‘It’s up to the voters if I’m DPOY, not me’ – Bam Adebayo | NBA Today

And look who’s here the center for the Miami Heat two-time Allstar bam aab bio thanks so much for stopping by how are you doing um I appreciate being here I am glad that you are here before we get into it bam we’re talking in The Newsroom I just want to reiterate

You were called bam because of the Flint Stones what is it that you did at home to earn that nickname let’s just let’s just remind everybody uh when I was younger about to uh apparently I mimic what the bamb BAM did in Flintstones and I tipped over a coffee

Table and it’s been my nickname ever since let’s talk about your game a little bit bam how do you square the fact that you’re one of the best Rim protectors one of the most versatile defenders in all of the NBA and yet you’ve never won defensive player of the year

Uh we just leave that to everybody else um not really up to me to decide if I’m the DPI it’s up to the voter often times you know I sit in this studio for hours and hours every day and have lots of conversations about the Eastern Conference and the East is framed as

Boston and then everybody else what do you think of that framing uh it’s the norm honestly um people are gonna always count us out people GNA always say our roster is what it is our roster won’t win and then we get in these seven game series and it’s a different result The

Narrative might change one day it might not um the biggest thing for us is when we get in these seven game series is the win you the Philadelphia 76ers the Milwaukee Bucks the Boston Celtics it’s you4 for the last couple of years it’s been some combination of you4 is there a

Team that you want to go through that you want to pull their number uh nah let’s really pick whoever and let us lace up and hoop bam thank you so much for spending a little bit of time with us here on MBA today thank [Applause] you NBA on is

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I interviewed Miami Heat big man Bam Adebayo on NBA Today and discussed the origin of his nickname, the Defensive Player of the Year award and more.