{"id":840995,"date":"2026-08-03T02:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840995\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T02:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:43:09","slug":"heats-bam-adebayo-reveals-his-top-5-nba-players-of-all-time-on-video-excludes-lebron-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840995\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat&#8217;s Bam Adebayo Reveals His Top 5 NBA Players of All-Time on Video, Excludes LeBron James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo listed off his top five NBA players of all time on Sunday and made the very interesting decision to exclude LeBron James.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Perhaps this was a case of sour grapes after James decided he had a far better chance to win a title with the Philadelphia 76ers, signing with Philly in free agency rather than returning to Miami to pair with Adebayo and Giannis Antetokounmpo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">It&#8217;s hard to blame James in that regard\u2014a core of James, Tyrese Maxey, Jaylen Brown, Joel Embiid and V.J. Edgecombe has a genuine chance to win a title. There were bigger question marks regarding the Heat&#8217;s title odds even if they had signed James. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">But making a top-five list of all-time NBA players and not including James\u2014who has broken so many records at this point he probably holds the record for most records held\u2014is a wild choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo listed off his top five NBA players of all time on Sunday and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-840995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}