{"id":690924,"date":"2026-04-01T00:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/690924\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T00:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:50:18","slug":"miami-heat-bam-adebayo-a-finalist-for-an-nba-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/690924\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Heat Bam Adebayo a finalist for an NBA award"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI \u2014 Heat center Bam Adebayo on Tuesday was named one of six finalists for the 2025-26 NBA Sportsmanship Award.<\/p>\n

The award \u201crecognizes the player who best represents the ideals of sportsmanship on the court.\u201d<\/p>\n

One finalist from each division was selected, with Adebayo the choice from the Southeast Division, among the players from the Heat, Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Hornets, Orlando Magic and Washington Wizards.<\/p>\n

The other finalists are Boston Celtics guard Derrick White (Atlantic Division), Indiana Pacers guard T.J. McConnell (Central), Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Northwest), Golden State Warriors center Al Horford (Pacific) and San Antonio Spurs forward Harrison Barnes (Southwest).<\/p>\n

Players will vote for the winner among the six finalists.<\/p>\n

The Heat have never had a winner of the award, with Adebayo a finalist in 2021, \u201922 and \u201923. Other Heat finalists were Kevin Love (2024), Shane Battier (2012), Shaquille O\u2019Neal (2006) and LaPhonso Ellis (2002).<\/p>\n

Through his first nine seasons, the season-ending honors already won by Adebayo have been limited to first-team All-Defensive in 2024<\/a> and second-team All-Defensive in 2020, \u201921, \u201922 and \u201923.<\/p>\n

The NBA on Tuesday also announced the 12 finalists for the 2025-26 Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year Award, with no Heat players from that finalist pool of six players from each conference.<\/p>\n

Battier won that award in 2014 while with the Heat, the franchise\u2019s lone recipient.<\/p>\n

Among this season\u2019s finalists are former Heat forward Duncan Robinson, who in the offseason was dealt to the Detroit Pistons.<\/p>\n

The Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year Award, \u201crecognizes the player deemed the best teammate based on selfless play, on- and off-court leadership as a mentor and role model to other NBA players, and commitment and dedication to team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Powell out<\/p>\n

Guard Norman Powell will miss his third consecutive game due to an upper respiratory illness when the Heat host the Boston Celtics on Wednesday night. It will be the 22nd game missed by Powell this season, his 11th in the past 17 games.<\/p>\n

Also, forward Andrew Wiggins, who had missed eight games with a toe issue before returning to play the past five, is listed as questionable due to the same issue (sesamoiditis of his left big toe).<\/p>\n

All others are listed as available for the Heat, with the exception of guard Terry Rozier, who is on NBA leave as he awaits trial on federal charges stemming from the FBI\u2019s gambling investigation.<\/p>\n

The only injury of note on the Celtics\u2019 report is center Nikola Vucevic remaining out due to a finger injury.<\/p>\n

Neither Jaylen Brown nor Jayson Tatum, who both have missed recent time, are on the Celtics\u2019 injury report.<\/p>\n

And another one<\/p>\n

With ESPNs report of Amar\u2019e Stoudemire being selected to this year\u2019s class for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, it brings to 13 the list of those with Heat ties selected to the shrine.<\/p>\n

Stoudemire played for the Heat in 2015-16, his final NBA season.<\/p>\n

Heat owner Micky Arison was inducted into Hall<\/a> as part of the shrine\u2019s 2025 class.<\/p>\n

Previously making the Hall with Heat ties were former team executive Billy Cunningham (1986), former Heat broadcaster Jack Ramsay (1992), former Heat assistant coach and current scout Bob McAdoo (2000), Heat president Pat Riley (2008), former Heat guard Gary Payton (2013), former Heat center and current team executive Alonzo Mourning (2014), O\u2019Neal (2016), former Heat guard Ray Allen (2018), former Heat forward Chris Bosh (2021), former Heat guard Tim Hardaway (2022) and former Heat guard Dwyane Wade (2023).<\/p>\n

Among those either still playing, several with Heat ties are considered either locks or strong possibilities for enshrinement according to Basketball Reference\u2019s Hall of Fame probability predictor, including LeBron James (100% estimated chance) , Kyle Lowry (85.7% probability), Jimmy Butler (75.6% probability) and Love (67.6% probability).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 Heat center Bam Adebayo on Tuesday was named one of six finalists for the 2025-26 NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[7,144,165,295,189,3881,6,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-690924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-heat","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-heat","13":"tag-miamiheat","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116326709946242285","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}