MIAMI – The Miami Heat have locked up their franchise center for the next five seasons.
Bam Adebayo is set to sign a 3-year/ $166 million contract extension, according to NBA Insider Shams Charnania.
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Adebayo’s new deal will keep him on the Heat through the 2028-2029 NBA season.
Miami’s captain and starting center has two years and about $72 million remaining on his current deal with the Heat, the only team that he’s played for since Miami drafted him in 2017.
Adebayo is a three time All-Star and has made the NBA’s All-Defensive team in each of the last five seasons, getting selected for the first team for the first time this past season.
“I feel it’s a long time coming, obviously,” Adebayo said when he made the first team. “Just staying in this moment, enjoying it, blessed to be able to be one of the ones selected.”
A member of the U.S. Olympic team that won gold at the Tokyo Games three years ago, Adebayo is part of the team that will play at the Paris Games starting next month. He averaged 19.3 points, 10.4 rebounds and 3.9 assists this past season for the Heat.
Adebayo, 26, is three years into his current deal, a five-year, $163 million contract.