Share
Gbeminiyi Ogunleye
3 weeks ago
Overview
Femi "Bam" Adebayo Gets Second Highest Single Game Points In NBA «
Bam Adebayo is American, born in Newark, New Jersey, on July 18, 1997. He plays for the USA Basketball team and represented the United States in the Olympics. He is of mixed heritage, with an African American mother and a Nigerian Yoruba father.
Key details about his background
Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey.
Nationality: American.
Heritage: Nigerian (father) and African American (mother).
Association: He has embraced his Nigerian heritage later in life.
Early life, family and education
Adebayo was born on July 18, 1997, in Newark, New Jersey, to a Nigerian Yoruba father, John Adebayo, and an African American mother, Marilyn Blount. As a child, he was given the nickname "Bam Bam" by his mother when, while watching The Flintstones at age one, he flipped over a coffee table in a manner similar to the show's character Bamm-Bamm Rubble.
Adebayo moved with his mother to North Carolina when he was seven. He had little further interaction with his father, who died in 2020 in Nigeria. Adebayo grew up resenting his last name and Nigerian heritage due to the distance from his father. He started to learn more about his Nigerian background at the age of 16 and has since embraced his heritage.
