Bam Adebayo (Miami Heat Photo)
Former Kentucky star Bam Adebayo signed a five-year, $195 million contract after helping the Miami Heat reach the NBA Finals in 2020 and recently has been named to the U.S. Olympic team along with another Wildcat, Devin Booker. The Nationonlineng.net recently published a lengthy story about Adebayo’s rise to stardom and more.
Obviously, Adebayo’s relationship with his mother has always been special and UK fans certainly embraced both of them during his year at Kentucky. That’s why I thought you might enjoy part of what he had to say about his mother in the lengthy article.
Question: The relationship between you and your mom is clearly very special. You said when you were younger, you just kind of thought, Mom works a lot. And as you got older, you realized, This isn’t what it’s like for everyone else. When did you realize that?
Adebyao: “I started realizing it when I got to high school. Going to some of my friend’s houses, my house didn’t look like theirs. My mom didn’t have a car. My mom walked to work. And I lived in a single-wide trailer. Looking at some of my friends, they have both parents, their parents had cars.
“And I’d notice Mom, she’d be tired. She’d wake up at 6 a.m., wake me up, cook me breakfast, and then she’ll be out the door. And I wouldn’t see her until 8 that night. It was a lot of growing up by yourself in the house.
“My mom was one of those parents where she always told me, there’s a difference between getting what you want and what you need. I thank her for it. Cause now I look at my life like that. It’s not what I want. It’s what I need.
“That’s kind of how I realized that we were poor, compared to all my other friends. But it took me until I got to high school to realize that. She made that single-wide trailer feel like I was living in a mansion.’
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Read the full story here: https://thenationonlineng.net/bam-adebayo-from-caravan-park-to-multi-million-dollar-man/
