MIAMI – Bam Adebayo once worried about money.Never again.Adebayo and the Miami Heat agreed on a five-year extension that will be worth at least $163 million, the team and Adebayo's agent Alex Saratsis said Tuesday.
The contract has not been signed and won't be until Adebayo completes a physical, something that is likely to occur in the next few days.Adebayo will make $5.1 million this season, the final year of his rookie contract.
From there, the extension will kick in with a starting salary of somewhere around $28.1 million for the 2021-22 season. And if he makes an All-NBA team this season, something he narrowly missed doing this past season, his annual salary would only rise more.Adebayo was expected to speak about the extension later.