{"id":588448,"date":"2026-04-07T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/588448\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:28:08","slug":"adam-sandler-spotted-playing-ball-in-vancouver-%e2%94%82-exclaim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/588448\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Sandler Spotted Playing Ball in Vancouver \u2502 Exclaim!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The attire is: mismatched baggy shorts, oversized hoodie and some sneakers \u2014 Adam Sandler<\/a>‘s in town.<\/p>\n

And if that uniform wasn’t enough of a giveaway, the comedy icon has officially been spotted doing what he does best off-screen: casually pulling up to a local gym and hooping like one of the guys.<\/p>\n

The Sandman was recently seen playing pickup basketball at the Teck Resources Gymnasium inside the Robert Lee YMCA in Downtown Vancouver. The moment was captured by Vancouver-based dunk coach Ayhab Farhat, who shared a now-viral clip of the actor running full-court with locals.<\/p>\n

“Balling with the boys. Good runs. Good energy,” Farhat wrote \u2014 and honestly, that about sums it up.<\/p>\n

In the video, Sandler blends right in, boxing out for rebounds and getting involved in the game like he’s a regular. No entourage, no production crew \u2014 just your classic everyman.<\/p>\n

He’s currently in the province filming Time Out, a remake of a French thriller, in which he stars alongside Willem Dafoe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While in the province, he has also been spotted outside of Vancouver. After filming in the area, the Happy Gilmore star visited Pepe’s Chophouse in Squamish and was later spotted in Hope, BC, taking a selfie with a group of locals by Tourism Hope, Cascades and Canyons.<\/p>\n

Safe to say, he’s been fully embracing his time in the province \u2014 from small-town stops to casual gym runs.<\/p>\n

This isn’t his first extended stay, either. Sandler has been in and out of BC over the past year while working on Happy Gilmore 2, and has even been spotted grabbing morning coffee around Vancouver.<\/p>\n

At this point, running into Adam Sandler in sweats somewhere in the city might just feel normal.<\/p>\n

So if you see a guy in oversized shorts boxing you out at the YMCA, perhaps take a second look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The attire is: mismatched baggy shorts, oversized hoodie and some sneakers \u2014 Adam Sandler‘s in town. And if…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-588448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}