Bam Adebayo is having a historic year—scoring 83 points in a game, earning his sixth All-Defensive Team selection (a franchise record), and winning the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Trophy for social justice leadership. Off the court, he’s also engaged in major philanthropy, investing over half a million dollars into education, food security, and youth programs across South Florida and North Carolina. Recently, he proposed to WNBA star A’ja Wilson, and his foundation has received a $100,000 donation to continue its mission, all rooted in his own experiences growing up as a child of a single mom.

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