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Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo bought his mother a new home for her 56th birthday.
The 23-year-old NBA star took to Instagram to share the news. The photos showed him and his mother, Marilyn Blount, walking inside the house for the first time.
“SCREAMING HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY WHOLE You Deserve This And Much More. You Can Officially Say ‘This My Sh*t’ #MommaGotACrib,” Adebayo captioned the post. Many of his fellow NBA players congratulated Adebayo, including Kevin Love, Chris Bosh, Derrick Jones Jr., and Dewan Hernandez.
According to ESPN, Adebayo and his mother lived in a single-wide trailer back in North Carolina when the athlete was growing up. “My mom never had nothing that she could call her own,” Adebayo told the outlet on Monday, People reports. “So growing up and being able to do something different with basketball and be a special player, that was something that I’ve always had in my mind, I’ve always wanted to do. And just having the opportunity to do it for my mom is an incredible experience.”
While he wows people on the court, the baller said he was “so nervous” to surprise his mother with her new home. “I never really gave her a gift like that,” he said. “So it kind of gave me like a feeling like when I first stepped on the Finals court. I didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t know anything at the moment.”
“Just seeing that woman go through all she went through and finally getting a break and being able to say, ‘This is mine,’ and ‘I own this,’ that was a big thing for me,” he told reporters, People reports. “My mom’s never owned anything, so I always wanted her to own something that she could say, ‘This is mine’ and feel good about it. … I wanted her to have 10 toes down [feeling] this is my house.”
The player said that he also hung a photo of their old trailer by the home’s front door so people can see their journey to now. “I wanted everybody to see where we actually came from,” Adebayo said. “And that doesn’t matter who walks in. You’re going to always see that picture. My whole goal [of] putting it there was just so everybody can see where we actually come from. And where I was raised at, what I went through, the struggle to get my mom a brand new crib, and the conditions she lived in. So that’s the main point of the picture.”
