Bam Adebayo has been one of the names of this offseason. The Miami center Heat He has been vital in his team’s success this season, which has earned him the most important contract of his short career. Those from Florida have given a maximum to the player of Nigerian origin in view of his great potential and his excellent immediate performance. A signing that extends his relationship with his current team for five seasons at a price of more than 160 million dollars.

An excessive price for a player who is barely 23 years old, and even more so knowing the history of waste that many early successful athletes have had. However, Bam is a different guy, and has made the best use of his new contract. Adebayo has given his mother a house for her 56th birthday, with whom he spent much of his childhood living in a caravan. The humble origins of different NBA players are marking this new generation in a very good way, since we are seeing a group much more integrated in social work and aware of all the positive and negative that fame and money can bring.

My mother never had anything she could call her own. Growing up and being able to do something different with basketball and being a special player, that was something that I always had in my mind, I always wanted to do. And having the opportunity to do it for my mother is an incredible experience,” added the one from New Jersey in a virtual press conference after what happened. But there was still the most emotional part, Adebayo’s words describing what he felt when he saw his mother receive such a gift. «The moment I saw her face after seeing her new house was priceless. My mother never had anything. “Seeing her go through everything she went through and finally having a break and being able to say that she owns it was very important.”