Adebayo was born on July 18, 1997 in Newark, New Jersey to a Nigerian father and an African-American mother. 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 is of African American and Yoruba descent.
Adebayo first attended Northside High School in
Pinetown, North Carolina. As a junior, he averaged 32.2 points and 21 rebounds a game. During the summer, Adebayo joined his Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) team, Team Loaded NC, alongside fellow five-star 2016 recruit Dennis Smith Jr. He averaged 15.0 points and 10 rebounds per game on Adidas Uprising Circuit. Later that summer Adebayo competed at the NBPA Top 100 Camp and was named MVP at the 2015 Under Armour Elite 24 game. After his junior season he transferred to High Point Christian Academy in High Point, North Carolina.

In his season debut, Adebayo scored 22 points and 17 rebounds in an 81–39 win over
New Garden Friends School . On December 29, he posted 26 points and 14 rebounds in a 91–63 victory over De'Aaron Fox and Cypress Lakes High School . As a senior, Adebayo averaged 18.9 points per game , 13.0 rebounds per game , 1.4 blocks per game and 1.5 assist per game, and led the Cougars to a NCISAA state championship appearance Adebayo was named 2016 North Carolina Mr. Basketball In January 2016, Adebayo played in the 2016 McDonald's All-American Game and Jordan Brand Classic .

Recruiting
Adebayo was rated as a five-star recruit and considered one of the best high school prospects of the 2016 class. Adebayo was ranked as the No. 5 overall recruit and No. 2 power forward in the 2016 high school class.

Adebayo was cut from the United States national team for the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup. He was subsequently named a finalist for the U.S. Olympic team in February 2020.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bam_Adebayo

Nigeria

Good people, Great Nation.

Yoruba!!!!!






Swagger

Nice. At first I thought OP was referring to the Yoruba actor that goes by the name .

una Sha must just turn everything to banta

Genoa:
Yoruba!!!!!






Swagger

Na our boy...We absolutely love to See It Yoruba boy’s reppin since 1914 Femi bambam Adebayo!

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GIVE AWAY BY 8:45pm

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A united youth is an unstoppable force


#NYM

God bless Nigeria

Ok...

This is one of the guys making us proud out there.

All the best Bam Bam!!

We Nigerians are very good at attributing anything goods to ourselves. I'm sure that guy is American.

long live juice wurldd

And so?

IGBO AMAKA

I don't even know what to say

Okay, okay...

Congratulations

Good news for all Nigerians, be it Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa etc.. we are one.. One luv!

donstan18:
Young IGBO MAN becomes the first to own a lounge/Resturant in Morocco.

His name is Ubani Chinagorom

IGBO AMAKA

Mokason28:
The brown rooof republic will not like this news
All I have to say is
IGBO
AMAKA
We are still developing the world

To the both of you, please see my comment above and take note. This isn't a contest.

Nice. How tall is he?

So this guy was born in 1997

Africans!!! we don carry football age enter NBA

yorouba amaka

In the 3rd picture were 2 Americans of yoruba descent competing Adebayo and Giannis Adetokunbo of milwaukee bucks, who's dad changed his name to Antetokounmpo.

IGBO AMAKA

How come there are no champions league thread on front page

That's good of him,
Omo Yoruba atata,
Proudly Nigerian American!

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Waiting for the tribal bigots to come display their foolishness in 1,2,3.................

Genoa:
Yoruba!!!!!
Swagger

The swagger that can't have good roads, schools, even ordinary water?
Shameless is who we are.
Shameless.


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todaynewsreview:
The bodies of at least 74 migrants have been washed ashore in western Libya, in the latest tragedy along the dangerous trafficking route to Europe. The Libyan Red Crescent posted photos of dozens of bodies in black and white bags lined up along the shore near the western city of Zawiya.
A spokesman for the aid organisation said there were still bodies floating out at sea as the agency had no way of retrieving them. He said the migrants were all adults, mostly from sub-Saharan African countries, and all but three were men.
The UN migration agency, the International Organisation of Migration (IOM), said the dinghy had set off on Saturday with 110 people on board. The agency said traffickers deliberately took the engines from the boat and then abandoned it to drift.

http://www.todaynewsreview.com/p/3051/tragedy-bodies-of-migrants-wash-ashore-en-route-europe-photo



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