Miami Heat's Bam Adebayo Calls Out Media Over Defensive Player Of Year Voting

Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo has no problem calling out the media for how the Defensive Player of the Year voting is handled.

He's done it before. So has coach Erik Spoelstra. And expect both to continue doing so until Adebayo wins the award.

The latest criticism was Adebayo taking a shot at the voting process while speaking with Jeremy Tache of Bally Sports Sun: Heat. Adebayo basically accused the media of paying too much attention to analytics instead of actual defense.

“For me, it’s getting stops," Adebayo said. I’m not into advanced stats. I'm not into the analytics, metrics, anything like that. To me, it's who can guard their yard? And that's 1-5, that's in zone. That's in whatever coverage your coach puts you in, you can excel. That, to me, is the DPOY, but the media has different opinions. They look at steals and blocks.”