Miami Heat All-Star big man Bam Adebayo took the blame for his team's 121-108 loss to the Boston Celtics in Game 5 of the NBA's Eastern Conference finals on Friday night.
"I played like s---," Adebayo said after the game in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. "Bottom line. I put that game on me. It's not my teammates' fault, it's not my coaches' fault, it's me. ... I missed too many shots I should have made. Put that one on me."
Adebayo, playing with a sleeve over his left arm after apparently suffering an injury to it at the end of the Heat's Game 4 victory, almost registered a triple-double with 13 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists in 38 minutes, but he did not play with the same activity that he usually does up and down the floor, particularly at the defensive end.