A’ja Wilson and Bam Adebayo are walking into their Love & Basketball era—just without all the unhealthy Quincy McCall shenanigans. During a recent interview with People, the WNBA MVP briefly opened up about her boo, dishing on a few details about their Valentine’s Day plans.
“My plans are here at NBA All-Star,” Wilson coyly expressed before noting that Bam didn’t make the All-Star selection. “My NBA All-Star is not here.” As the South Carolina native explained that because of the Miami Heat player wasn’t able to be at the 2025 NBA All-Star Game, she acknowledged that he was taking time off from the court to “[get] the rest he needs.” “And that’s the best Valentine’s gift that I can truly give him, is just the rest.
However, the Las Vegas Aces captain did stop short of labeling each other their Valentines in the usual A’ja fashion, humorously saying, “I mean—.” The conversation then shifted to Bam’s viral moment, with the Olympian sporting the Nike A’One–Wilson’s first signature shoe with the Oregon-based company.
It was super dope. It was a moment…[Bam Adebayo] really wanted to be at the forefront of pushing my shoes,” she revealed about her homie-lover-friend. “If I have to put it out in the NBA, why not have someone like Bam Adebayo, who’s just a good person all around, to kind of showcase my shoes, so I was thankful he was able to wear it.”
Rumors of the two-star athletes becoming a couple intensified in the second half of 2024 during the Paris Olympics. Bam Adebayo and A’ja Wilson were photographed together, slyly hanging out or near one another, careful not to draw much attention to their budding flame.
The two became the topic of many online conversations, with numerous netizens gushing about the potential Love & Basketball vibes they were giving off—regardless of how hard they attempted to conceal it. “Yea they can’t hide anymore,” one account typed at the time.
After the Olympics, more folks began catching on to the love in the air. During a September 2024 ceremony that saw the Heat player get the key to Miami-Dade County for snagging gold with Team USA, the mayor put the couple on blast.
A’ja Wilson, she won gold in women’s basketball. I guess that has something to do with Bam and the Heat being here today,” Daniella Levine Cava comically told the crowd.