October 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\nThe secret was kept, and a fifth MVP award is coming to the home that Wilson and Adebayo share.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had nothing to do with that,\u201d Adebayo said.<\/p>\n
True, the couple has combined for five MVPs \u2014 and Wilson has won all of them. They\u2019ve been together for a few years, after a close friendship began forming when they were playing for USA Basketball at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. He\u2019s a regular at Aces games when his schedule allows; she\u2019s a regular at Heat games during her offseasons.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s good to celebrate somebody that honestly deserves it,\u201d Adebayo said after he and the Heat beat New Orleans 128-118 in a preseason game Thursday night. \u201cYou really can\u2019t put five MVPs into words. You literally just have to sit there and just like admire greatness. So, yeah, can\u2019t wait to get home, get on FaceTime and talk about the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wilson has been, without question, the dominant player since she entered the WNBA. Not only does she have five MVPs in her nine pro seasons, but she\u2019s actually gotten 54% of all first-place votes over that span.<\/p>\n
Wilson has gotten 274 first-place MVP votes in her nine seasons; all other WNBA players in those years, combined, have 233. She tied for seventh in her first season, was eighth in the MVP voting the next year, and then the next seven seasons have gone like this \u2014 first, sixth, first, third, first, first and first.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s also an eight-time All-Star and her career average of 22.1 points per game is the highest in WNBA history. And Wilson was in Miami last season for Adebayo\u2019s 83-point game, the second-best single-game scoring effort in NBA history.<\/p>\n
\u201cI try to do my best to remind her of who she is, and vice versa,\u201d Adebayo said. \u201cWhen you have those types of moments, those need to be celebrated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As A\u2019ja Wilson won her fifth WNBA MVP, one person had the inside scoop: Bam Adebayo.\u00a0 MIAMI (AP)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[318349,49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-926273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-bam-adebayo-aja-wilson-wnba-mvp","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926273","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=926273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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