{"id":484643,"date":"2024-06-26T18:31:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T22:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484643"},"modified":"2024-06-26T18:31:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T22:31:04","slug":"adebayo-to-ink-3-year-166-million-dollar-extension-with-miami","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/adebayo-to-ink-3-year-166-million-dollar-extension-with-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"Adebayo to ink 3-year, 166 million dollar extension with Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bam Adebayo, 1 of the league\u2019s best defensive basketballers and become 2-time U.S. Olympian, plans to ink a 3-year, 166-million-dollar extension with the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/miami-heat\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/miami-heat\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/miami-heat\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/miami-heat\/\">Miami Heat<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> when the NBA\u2019s offseason moratorium on such deals is lifted in July.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Miami Heat and Bam Adebayo \u2013 a three-time All-Star and three-time All-Defensive player \u2013 intend to reach a three-year, $166 million maximum contract extension, sources tell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TheAthletic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stadium?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Stadium<\/a>. Heat expect to lock in their cornerstone center through the 2028-29 season. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r8K8P6nyRE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/r8K8P6nyRE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1806033800486678692?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bam, who will be 27 next month, can ink the contract on July 6<sup>th<\/sup> by the NBA rule.<\/p>\n<p>The Heat captain and starting center has 2 years and about 72 million dollars remaining on his current contract with Miami, the only organization that he has competed for since the Heat picked him in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Bam has made the NBA All-Defensive Team in each of the last 5 campaigns, getting picked for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> team for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time in the last campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Bam is 3 years into his current contract, a 5-year, 163 million dollar deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bam Adebayo, 1 of the league\u2019s best defensive basketballers and become 2-time U.S. Olympian, plans to ink a 3-year, 166-million-dollar extension with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484644,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19190,17010,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[20016,17912,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The center will sign a 3-year extension with the Heat.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484645,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484643\/revisions\/484645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484643"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484643"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}