Ranking all Miami Heat players into 5 trade value tiers
By Brennan Sims
Untouchable: Bam Adebayo
Bam Adebayo is the Heat's franchise pillar for many basketball reasons.
- Best defender in the NBA
- Growing offensive weapon
- Coachable
- Unselfish
The list of traits that make Bam Adebayo a perfect fit to lead the Heat into the future could go on for days, but there's an underated aspect about Bam that makes him untouchable.
Bam and Jayson Tatum have been spotted on social media websites several times. I could see how a Heat fan cringes at seeing our star player playing nice with our rivals' go-to guy, but I don't see it like that.
From a distance, we see all the relationships Bam has cultivated over the years—he seems to be friends with stars like Lillard, Donovan Mitchell, Tatum, and many more. We've seen one of these relationships blossom into a full-on trade request to Miami from Lillard. There were reports that Mitchell strongly considered Miami because of Adebyo.
Bam is great at basketball, and that's the main reason we love him, but he will eventually help land us a whale. Miami will obtain a superstar talent through Bam's influence when it all shakes out.