{"id":556884,"date":"2026-10-28T08:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T07:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=556884"},"modified":"2026-10-28T08:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T07:42:10","slug":"bam-adebayo-on-heats-0-4-start-theyre-making-me-the-scapegoat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/bam-adebayo-on-heats-0-4-start-theyre-making-me-the-scapegoat\/","title":{"rendered":"Bam Adebayo on Heat\u2019s 0-4 start: \u201cThey\u2019re making me the scapegoat\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bam Adebayo does not believe he should carry all the blame for the Miami Heat\u2019s winless start to the season. \u201cIt\u2019s funny how the outside noise wants to make me the scapegoat,\u201d Adebayo said after the loss to Dallas. \u201cWhen the energy shifts, just be prepared for that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Heat captain is averaging 11.8 points and 7.3 rebounds while shooting 40% from the field and 16.7% from three. Giannis Antetokounmpo defended his teammate: \u201cIt\u2019s not just Bam, it\u2019s everybody. We\u2019re trying to figure out where we fit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Davion Mitchell added that Adebayo needs to be more aggressive while acknowledging that he and Giannis often operate in similar areas of the floor and need time to adjust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bam Adebayo says outside critics are making him the scapegoat for Miami\u2019s 0-4 start<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-556884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Miami-Heay.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556885,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556884\/revisions\/556885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556884"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=556884"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=556884"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=556884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}