{"id":926373,"date":"2026-10-09T09:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926373\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T09:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:34:14","slug":"bam-adebayo-kept-aja-wilsons-mvp-a-secret-heat-center-praises-wnba-star-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926373\/","title":{"rendered":"Bam Adebayo Kept A&#8217;ja Wilson&#8217;s MVP a Secret, Heat Center Praises WNBA Star Girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Bam Adebayo can keep a secret. Especially when it involves his girlfriend A&#8217;ja Wilson&#8217;s fifth WNBA MVP. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">According to the <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bam-adebayo-aja-wilson-wnba-mvp-51afab4ee549df0573bf41298307ae82\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>, &#8220;Adebayo\u2014the Miami Heat center and longtime partner of Wilson, the Las Vegas Aces star\u2014was asked last week to record some thoughts about his girlfriend winning the award again, which also meant he couldn&#8217;t give her any hints about the voting results. The secret was kept, and a fifth MVP award is coming to the home that Wilson and Adebayo share.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Instead, Wilson officially learned she won the award again when she received a message from former Vice President Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">&#8220;It&#8217;s good to celebrate somebody that honestly deserves it,&#8221; Adebayo told reporters after Thursday&#8217;s 128-118 preseason win over the New Orleans Pelicans. &#8220;You really can&#8217;t put five MVPs into words. You literally just have to sit there and just like admire greatness. So, yeah, can&#8217;t wait to get home, get on FaceTime and talk about the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bam Adebayo can keep a secret. Especially when it involves his girlfriend A&#8217;ja Wilson&#8217;s fifth WNBA MVP. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-926373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926373","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=926373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}