It has been over a year since the Paris Olympics, where Team USA rocked the world with its gold medal-winning performance. But Bam Adebayo returned home with another prize, A\u2019Ja Wilson. They may have been dating even earlier, but that is when their relationship became somewhat public. Now, they talk about each other openly, and Wilson recently revealed something unique about her partner.<\/p>\n
Wilson and Adebayo are both stars. Wilson is arguably on an even higher level within the WNBA, where she has established herself as an all-time great, especially after capturing her fourth MVP earlier this year and then winning another ring with the Las Vegas Aces<\/a>. Adebayo may not be on quite the same league-wide star level in the NBA, but he is unquestionably an icon within the Miami Heat<\/a> fandom.<\/p>\n One area where Adebayo eclipses Wilson, possibly, is sheer competitiveness. In fact, even when they\u2019re at home chilling or playing something together, Adebayo forgets the informal setting and treats it like a Game 7 of the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n On the\u00a0Not Gonna Lie\u00a0podcast, Wilson said<\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s actually scary how competitive it is. We do escape rooms in our off time. Sometimes I\u2019m like, \u2018Bam, we\u2019re on the same team!\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cBut he finds a clue, let me go find one before him. I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh my god, I\u2019m doing it, A\u2019ja.\u2019 Like, I\u2019m like, \u2018Really? Come on.\u2019 So, yeah, it\u2019s very competitive. Very competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s natural for even Wilson to be competitive. You don\u2019t become a basketball legend in the best basketball nation in the world without that. But going at each other\u2019s throats while playing \u2018Escape Room\u2019? It works for their relationship, so fair play to them.<\/p>\n But it\u2019s not all battles and \u2018who\u2019s better than whom\u2019. They\u2019ve had plenty of sweet moments captured over the last year. While Wilson was celebrating her WNBA Championship win earlier this year, Adebayo was on her side and was even helping her<\/a> with small things while she was busy enjoying the moment.<\/p>\n The way they support each other has also been heartwarming to see for the basketball community. In a segment with Good Morning America, the host said what fans all over felt. \u201cWe see you with him, we see him at your games, with your family, how have you been able to support each other as professional athletes?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Wilson replied by stating that support is the foundation of their relationship. They knew it wasn\u2019t going to be easy, considering the spotlight on both of them at all times.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the end of the day, we want it to work, and when we see the behind the scenes, when we see the down days, the good days, we know we have to show up, because you know how hard it took to get to the point,\u201d Wilson added<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cIn my eyes, he\u2019s perfect.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been over a year since the Paris Olympics, where Team USA rocked the world with its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[650,8910,4677,8173,99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-312706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-aja-wilson","9":"tag-bam-adebayo","10":"tag-las-vegas-aces","11":"tag-miami-heat","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}