Bam Adebayo recognized something had to change, that he needed something liberating, something to get his offensive potential closer to the bar he had so firmly established on the defensive end over his first five seasons.
So during the offseason, he headed upstairs from the Miami Heat locker room, to Erik Spoelstra’s office next to the practice court at Miami-Dade Arena.
“I had to talk to Spo,” Adebayo told the South Florida Sun Sentinel at his locker recently, before heading out as an Eastern Conference selection to Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game in Salt Lake City. “I told him, ‘I can’t can’t just run into 7-2 guys and expect to get a layup. I can’t do that all the time.’
