Ira Winderman: Adebayo on All-NBA getting him supermax deal, “Vote for me.”
NBA Rumor: Bam Adebayo Extension?
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Ira Winderman: Adebayo on Heat pushing forward, “We always find a way.”
Dwyane Wade: Earned
Tim Reynolds: The Bam Adebayo deal will not be signed for a few days; there’s a physical to take, etc. But it is done.
Bobby Marks: Bam Adebayo rookie max extension Contract vs. the max he could earn 21/22 $28.1 ➡️$33.7 22/23 $30.4 ➡️$36.4 23/24 $32.6 ➡️$39.1 24/25 $34.8 ➡️$41.8 25/26 $37.1 ➡️$44.5 Total $163 ➡️$195.6
Ira Winderman: Have been told Adebayo deal is agreed to.
Bobby Marks: The Bam Adebayo $28.1M salary in 2021/22 (and possibly more) replaces his $15.4M cap hold. The Heat are still going to have between $25-28M in room.
Zach Lowe: The deal includes escalator clauses that can take its total to $195 million over five years, Saratsis tells ESPN
Chris Bosh: YES SIR BRO. WELL DESERVED
Anthony Chiang: The move to extend Bam Adebayo this offseason means the Heat will have to do some cap gymnastics to have max cap space next offseason. While more challenging, 2021 max cap space is still a possibility.
Shams Charania: The Miami Heat plan to sign All-Star Bam Adebayo to a five-year, $163M contract extension, source tells @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium .
The Miami Heat are moving forward with a maximum rookie-scale extension for All-Star center, an NBA source confirmed to the Sun Sentinel, a five-year agreement that would kick in for the 2021-22 season and could run upwards of five years at almost $200 million.
The Heat have a Dec. 21 deadline to finalize such an agreement, the day before the scheduled start of the pandemic-delayed 2020-21 season. Adebayo stands as is the last remaining player in line for a maximum extension.
The Heat, however, plan to move forward, at least at the moment, with intentions of maximizing 2021-22 salary cap space. Without an offer, or without accepting such an offer, Adebayo would become a restricted free agent in the 2021 offseason. The intrigue with Adebayo is that he shares the same agent as Antetokounmpo, who also is eligible for a max-tier extension over the next month.
Heat nearing Bam Adebayo extension
Ira Winderman: The Heat are moving forward with plans to extend Bam Adebayo.
ESPN’s Zach Lowe reported that Adebayo’s agent, Alex Saratsis, will meet with the Heat this week regarding where Miami stands on a possible max extension that would leave the Heat with less 2021 cap space. Adebayo is expected to speak to reporters Tuesday in the context of a charitable Thanksgiving event.
Ira Winderman: Goran Dragic, on wearing “Bam” shirt, when Dragic signed his new deal Sunday, “I know we’re going to take care of him.” Adebayo is eligible for an extension over the next month.
The Miami Heat previously showed interest in the Italian forward at the trade deadline. If Giannis Antetokounmpo signs an extension with Milwaukee, some around the league expect Miami to extend Bam Adebayo, try to bring back Goran Dragic, and upgrade at forward. That could open the door for Gallinari to land with Miami as a free agent on a multi-year deal.
Albert Nahmad: If Heat want to be assured to be able to keep core + retain a Giannis-sized max salary slot for 2021: 🔥 They can’t extend Bam, and 🔥 Any long-term salary they take on (in free agency or trade) needs to be for a player: (x) who’s tradable, or (y) who fits into excess cap room
Miami Heat prepared to go all-in for Giannis Antetokounmpo
Rival teams are monitoring Adebayo’s extension situation and the aftereffects if Miami bypasses extending their superstar big man. Miami is preparing to go all in on the pursuit of Milwaukee’s two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo in 2021 free agency, sources said. There is a school of thought that salary-wise, waiting on Adebayo’s extension would allow for as much space as possible for 2021. But given Adebayo’s presence, leadership and meaning to the Heat franchise, this is a straight-forward conversation between team executives and Adebayo’s agent, Alex Saratsis: A max extension this offseason or not.
NBA Central: Brian Windhorst says to keep an eye on Bam Adebayo and Giannis Antetokounmpo this off season “It’s interesting to point out that Bam and Giannis Antetokounmpo have the same agent. . . If neither of them sign extensions this off season, watch out for the Miami Heat.” (🎥 ESPN) pic.twitter.com/hQXIytB8L2
All of this circles back to one of the most important decisions facing Miami: Bam Adebayo. He’ll be eligible for a max extension this offseason, and if he makes one of the top three 2020-21 All-NBA teams and/or wins Defensive Player of the Year, he’ll be eligible for a five-year deal that could pay him nearly $200 million. However, extending Adebayo now screws up the sugar-plum dreams of having cap space for a Giannis pursuit in 2021. One of the key pieces of that fantasy is that Adebayo’s restricted free-agent cap hold would only be $15 million; if he’s on the books for $35 million instead, that all goes right out the window.
However, a Miami team with Adebayo on a max contract, even the “low” max that pays just 25 percent of the cap, has no chance of having enough cap room for another max free agent. Not with Butler making $35 million in 2021-22 and $5.2 in dead money committed to the long-gone Ryan Anderson. Just with those three spots filled, it is not mathematically possible to have max cap space unless there is a massive leap in the cap number ahead of 2021 — which is the one thing that seems least likely to happen in the current financial environment.
November 27, 2020 | 6:18 am EST Update
Real Madrid's Gabriel Deck leaving for the NBA?
Real Madrid lost star guard Facu Campazzo to the NBA (the Denver Nuggets to be specific) and there is a reported possibility that this may also happen with another player of the team. According to Marca, Real Madrid forward Gabriel Deck will be using the exit clause on his contract with “Blancos” and sign with an NBA club even next week if his team doesn’t present him with an extension offer really soon. There are some NBA teams that have “shown an interest” for the Argentinian player and he’s ready to make the jump, unless something changes with his contract situation with Real.
One longtime league executive said the past week was the most hectic of his career. In addition to the draft and free agency crammed together in an abbreviated offseason, there are so many other less-publicized tasks that teams are trying to sort through, from COVID-19 protocols to fans possibly attending games to scheduling. It’s wild to think that regular-season games are scheduled to tip off in less than a month.
Olgun Uluc: An interesting development: Brisbane Bullets big-man, Tyrell Harrison, has been classified by the NBPA as eligible for the 2021 NBA Draft, his agent tells ESPN. The Kiwi is 21 years old, a legit 7-foot, and should get a minutes bump with Magnay gone. An intriguing, raw prospect.
For example, every day at 5 a.m., inside room 950 in the Gran Destino (where all the top-seeded teams stayed), Masai Ujiri would wake up, read his book, hop on the Peloton, and work out before heading down for breakfast. He thought nothing of his daily ritual until one morning, several weeks into the bubble, when he got a text from another former player of his: “Morning boss, you good up there?” The text was from Kawhi Leonard—Finals MVP with the Raptors, now a star on the Clippers—who was staying in room 850, directly below his old boss. Ujiri had been waking Kawhi up with his noisy workouts for weeks, but Kawhi was reluctant to say anything.
Ujiri told Kawhi that he would stop for the time being and joked that he would continue again when the Raptors met the Clippers in the Finals, messing with Kawhi’s sleep. Kawhi responded with the kind of trash talk that’s best read aloud in Kawhi’s dry monotone: “Haha, you know the saying ‘Don’t poke the bear’? I’m gonna call the NBA on you…get you out the bubble.”
NBA star Markelle Fultz is taking Wakanda Forever literally … he just got a foot-long image of the Black Panther tattooed on his thigh — and it’s AMAZING!! TMZ Sports has learned back in the summer, Fultz hit up “Ink Master” star Roly T-Rex about getting some ink done. And, with Chadwick Boseman’s death and the Black Lives Matter movement at its peak … the two got to thinking a “Black Panther” piece would be perfect.
November 27, 2020 | 1:58 am EST Update
And as is usually the case when the Celtics don’t turn a highly publicized rumor into a reality, we’re getting a reason why that deal never went through. According to ESPN’s Zach Lowe, the Celtics were never really that high on Turner. Boston apparently didn’t see him as a very big upgrade to their frontcourt, and was even exploring other deals to trade Turner had the deal with Indiana come to fruition. “Talking to people and reading the tea leaves as best I could, it really comes down to the Celtics didn’t want Myles Turner,” Lowe said on The Lowe Post Podcast. “I did hear from some teams around the league that the Celtics have done some preliminary research on what Myles Turner’s trade value would have been to them had they acquired him either in this deal or in a separate deal, and obviously didn’t like what they saw.”
