Bam Adebayo meeting Jayson Tatum at the rim in the 2020 playoffs deserves a deep rewind

It’s September 15, 2020. Were in Mickey Mouse’s backyard for Game One of the Eastern Conference Finals - Bubble Ball in Florida Baby. Up three in overtime, the overachieving Miami Heat can snatch a win… technically on the road against the favored Boston Celtics. But with just a smidge over two seconds on the clock, the C’s have just enough time to send this to double overtime. It’s already been an unpredictable year, so anything could happen. But before we see what comes next, let’s rewind.
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[@CWANTIZE]

These guys come in CLUTCH when I wash my dishes at 2am

[@SleepyGrapes]

I hate that I relate so hard to this comment 😂😂

[@iansteelmatheson]

omg stop

[@joshuaconniff7712]

Why at 2 am?

[@BigBroKuma]

😂 Exactly

[@FupaDoncic]

When you finish your meal before the videos over

[@altern4795]

The sort of play that deserved a live sold out crowd. American Airlines Arena would have exploded and TD Garden would have been left without air

[@sendAJtospace]

The Heat were the 5 seed that year, so Game 1 would’ve been in Boston

[@eliyarrows2456]

Agreed. In the series before this, Marcus Smart had a chase down block in a tie game with 1 minute left against Toronto during GAME 7. And there was no crowd for this. Idk who the “home team” even would have been and idc it just deserved a live audience just like a bunch of series in the bubble.

[@WindUPSB]

@@eliyarrows2456 it would have been in Toronto in that game 7. The Bubble really gave us epic match ups without live audiences smh

[@Sports21all]

Bam getting his own Rewind. Lettttts Goooo

[@Tony_Toni_Tone]

Bam is extremely underrated. I love how hard he works.

[@sublime3784]

His ability to set a screen in one location and end it in another all without getting a foul is unmatched.

[@thedarkfrost2351]

Underrated? After the series he was rated as top 10 guys you would want to build your franchise with and he was also first team all defense this year we.

[@Tony_Toni_Tone]

@@thedarkfrost2351 a lot of my friends don't know much about him. They only talk about Jokic, Embiid, Wemby, and a few others. Other players love Bam, too. Michael Beasley said on a podcast that Bam can do so much more on offense

[@Bigedub101]

Highly unrated

[@michaelcadieux]

i remember watching this live during lockdown and holy heck my celtics fan heart broke in a million pieces

[@juniscecilio]

yup

[@juniscecilio]

Hopefully this is our year now!!!🙏🏽

[@09lowkey]

@@juniscecilio Keyword: "Hopefully". As long as yall have Tatum the most you can do is hope because dude is not him.

[@juniscecilio]

@09lowkey I actually kinda agree withyou, but we'll see.,

[@nilbertsanchez684]

@@juniscecilionot a real Celtics fan dude is great flawed but great

[@apierre6]

Remember this like it was yesterday

[@AllenChevalier1]

Because it basically was in the grand scheme

[@greencm7142]

"Mickey Mouse's backyard". 😂 Great work.

[@NRG349]

Never gets old 😂😂

[@SortaNonymous]

"Bubble ball in Florida, baby!"

[@elliottanderson8581]

God I love bam so much, definitely one of his best plays ever

[@meep7895]

this one kinda felt off cuz the big moment just got shown and then a moment afterwards that didnt feel as important got the big reveal

[@aw11348]

Yeah lol that was kinda weird. Made me think there was ANOTHER Bam block coming that I had forgotten about, but no....

[@bobody354]

Yeah, definitely a bit odd

[@kevy9680]

Bam is such a stud on the defensive front, man can also do it on offense. He's a damn good player.

[@kam_12_]

i have been frustrated with his offense, selfishly wanting more out of him(more 3s and more aggressive with his midrange floaters to get up to like 25 ppg) but when you realize just how impactful and versatile he is on defense anything he gives you on offense is a plus, and 20 and 10 is still great with elite defense

[@Mia-mf]

The 2020 Playoffs were great looking back. The Raptors-Celtics series, the Clippers 3-1 collapse against the Nuggets and the Finals between the Lakers and Heat

[@DarrickGathright]

😂😂😂 no ma’am

[@shinobu37]

The most boring and the worst season in NBA history. Only casuals say the bubble championship counts!

[@youngerudit2524]

Thunders vs rockets, mavs vs clippers, there were so many great series lol. Only but hurt lakers haters and bronsexuals who wake up thinking about lebron, delude themselves into thinking it was bad basketball…

[@JesusSaves33011]

​@shinobu37 the Lakers were the best team in the league regardless of the bubble.

[@kibitz2327]

@@shinobu37 The next year the Suns were in the finals. All 4 coference finalists in the bubble have made a conference finals since.

[@Caboooo]

"BAM SAYS GET IT OUTTA HERE" sent chills down my spine and gave me goosebumps, It plays in my head as often as "BAAAANG"

[@AllenChevalier1]

Congrats on getting clapped by lebron after

[@user-rr7bu9fe3k]

@@AllenChevalier1u mean LeFraud? LeFlop? LeChoke? LeBum? LeSunshine?

[@AllenChevalier1]

@@user-rr7bu9fe3k pathetic attempt to troll me lmao. I don't even care about basketball. Goofy ass sport

[@youngerudit2524]

@@user-rr7bu9fe3kle4times finals mvp. Le most finals mvps in heat franchise history,took 4 years by the way…😢🫣 and finally, le more rings than the heat franchise.

[@crypti1c]

@@AllenChevalier1 honestly im just glad i saw a bron vs heat matchup somewhere in the playoffs after he left. being in the finals made it even better for me. i don't care that we lost that year. seeing that matchup was worth it either way

[@staidenofanarchy]

Incredible call by Mark Jones to boot

[@TheReese989]

Bubble basketball was pretty exciting no lie

[@gnomechomsky2524]

It was some of the best basketball I’ve ever seen in my life

[@cd6xc]

The playoffs were incredible

[@stonecoldku4161]

2008 National Championship game. Kansas vs Memphis. Mario's Miracle deserves a Deep Rewind.

[@emsan3684]

COULDN'T PUNCH IT! The most underated line in Mickey Mouse backyard!!! 😂

[@alfiehaigh8412]

I started watching basketball in 2020. This was my first playoffs I ever watched. This moment was what made me fall in love with basketball.

[@nocturne311]

Well that’s rough.

[@acgeewhiz]

Don’t try to gate keep. If you like NBA ball, let folks start when they start. The bubble had some amazing moments and series. Are there better moments or seasons across about 80 years? Almost definitely, but if you don’t like 2020, just keep it moving.

[@alfiehaigh8412]

Having watched the playoffs every year since then, honestly the bubble had some of the best moments. I’m genuinely not meaning to say this to rile people up or be offensive, but being from Europe, the American fan/crowd atmosphere at sports events (yes even in the playoffs) really isn’t that good, so it didn’t feel too different or like I was ‘missing’ something watching the bubble. Not saying that there isn’t A DIFFERENCE watching the playoffs with and without a crowd, there is. But it’s not significant enough to make the bubble feel like it was like a poor entry into watching playoff basketball

[@theophilusjones6024]

And they can’t say it was a fluke… we had a weird year in 2021… but 2022 was a shot away from the nba finals and in 2023 made the nba finals… no matter what happens after, we had a GREAT run with Jimmy as our guy and he’s easily the third greatest Heat player of all time after Wade & Bron. We definitely hanging his jersey up… Bam too ofc

[@JRRM97]

maybe top 5, not top 3 tho

[@nocturne311]

@@JRRM97He is top three. Mourning never took a team to the Finals as the guy and Bosh was a #3 option with the Heat.

[@nocturne311]

It sounds like you’re bargaining.

[@JRRM97]

@@nocturne311 mourning was there for longer, and what does a finals run mean if it doesn't end in a win

[@12packersfan]

Getting a rewinder on something that feels like it happened six months ago is a little jarring for my sense of time

[@lucassco10]

yeah they just making videos for anything now. i got better ideas for rewinds than this 💀

[@andym2345]

​@@lucassco10it was four years ago unc

[@YpsitheFlintsider]

@@lucassco10 then you make it

[@lucassco10]

@@andym2345 not old enough to rewind a play that resulted in neither winning a title

[@lucassco10]

@@YpsitheFlintsider i said i got ideas not the time to make a video that would take hours

[@brycetheoddball]

The start of a rivalry. Fr fr.

[@SadfoxGuyver]

Start*

[@nxxdle_]

As a C’s fan, I hate the Heat but there’s a bit of respect mixed in cuz these will be fun times to reminisce on years later.

[@wakkawakkagaming3710]

I gotta say, it’s like the episode but the emphasis was kinda odd. Woulda been cooler if the freeze frame moment was the block and the postscript was the missed shot. Still, solid as always

[@perparimarsenal]

One of the most memorable plays of modern NBA. Great work

[@Braylon1997]

If you put things into perspective, the Heat and Celtics been facing off against each other multiple times in the postseason since LeBron made the jump from Cleveland to South Beach

[@nocturne311]

They actually met for the first time the season before that - in the first round in 2009-2010.

[@anted251]

Finaly a sb video ❤❤❤

[@jonathanchan3577]

Bam got a secret base vid for himself. We out here

[@nolanproffitt3076]

These videos always have amazing pacing and sequencing. Love it

[@dplank1760]

We’re just rewinding everything now huh

[@Serocco]

The birth of the best modern day rivalry in the NBA

[@randomconnection]

This 2020 run was one of the most exciting if not the most exciting even if we came up short. This team was so together and in synch. Love that team

[@LouieRides]

What a moment. Glad Bam is finally getting his recognition around the league

[@user-lb7pt6jb3o]

So refreshing with no annoying ads

[@ShynyMagikarp]

my feeling early in this one was there was way too much on Jimmy and not enough on Bam, but then you guys transitioned so smoothly and naturally and it was brilliant. One of your best rewinders imo

[@duncangempesaw5098]

wake up babe secret base dropped

[@722zach]

I was waiting for this since the block happened

[@lubbers825]

Remember watching this, and as a Celtics fan, this play continues to linger in my mind

[@jordanscott7247]

This series solidifies the rivalry you now see today of Celtics v Heat in the new era of basketball

[@ginonunez6954]

As a Heat fan I remember watching this live I was jumping up and down like crazyyyyy

[@AirRusher1992]

Another installment of Rewinder and the second one from the 2020 Playoffs in the bubble after the Harden block of Dort.

[@jjleblanc8151]

I remember watching this game in my basement in my old house when I was in high school. I’m going into my senior year of college now and I’ve hated the heat as a Celtics fan ever since.

[@TheShahofBaltimore]

Put some respect on BAM name 💥

[@terrylowery26jets]

Bam getting his roses 🤝🏾 love to see it 🔥GO HEAT🔥

[@clutchcity25]

This is where the seeds of this new Heat-Celtics rivalry were formed.

[@TunaMan-mg1kz]

As a Celtics fan this was one of the most painful moments I've ever had watching basketball, but in hindsight it's definitely one of the top 5 plays I've ever seen live

[@weegeemike]

Crazy to think that this is old enough to be featured on REWINDER 😂😂 i remember Covid ball like it was yewtersy 😂

[@kapowjam3462]

Bubble playoffs were crazy!

[@nandwani88]

Yo. I was like why we getting a rewind when I remember this just like yesterday. But then realized I completely forgot how Kemba was in the Celtics. Damn.

[@chill1224.]

Bam💪

[@JM-kk4wd]

ADEBAYOOOOOO

[@kam_12_]

that still shot is one of the craziest hoop shots ive ever seen, his whole left wrist bent back right above the rim😭😭 i hope it doesn’t get forgotten bc it was “just the bubble” but it truly was one of the greatest blocks in nba history

[@NuradinAlas]

Bam,s block on that lob was amazing

[@thedominator3247]

This happened on my birthday and I vividly remember coming home from getting my first tattoo and watching this

[@sircomesize5497]

I think yall should do more rewinds that are older

[@rig-zag]

I can see you already starting a Deep Rewind on Celtics-Pacers game 1 and Jaylen Brown's big shot.

[@ogloc420]

YESSIR I LOVE BAM

[@graysondossett1558]

Not sure if yall would ever venture into it, but a NASCAR rise and fall of Stewart Hass Racing would be great with the production you do. One of the best in the sport to out of it in 4 years. A unique type of colapse compared to stick and ball sports.

[@peteanderson6121]

As a Celtics fan, I will never forget this block

[@ubelsimp]

2005 UCL Final needs one so bad

[@infinitekakashi1234]

Thank you

[@ItsDomeno]

🔥🔥🔥

[@bengahtan]

My walk to get Starbucks coffee this morning needs a deep rewind

[@iamidnight9731]

Damn its 4 years already? Time flies.

[@tcempk]

Not even mentioning Dragic, who was Heats leading scorer till he got hurt in the finals, is lowkey disrespectful.

[@MrNrj6490]

This was a pretty deflating play to watch as a Cs fan lol Bubble ball was crazy

[@nocturne311]

I was just talking to my fiancée about this play earlier today. She’s a Heat fan and I’m a Celtics fan. Needless to say things have been contentious when the postseason has rolled around these last four seasons. Lol.

[@Enthusiast230]

2 minutes ago is crazyy

[@jaydenk2305]

when you said we were in mickey mouses back yard i thought that meant tatum😭😭 0:05

[@matt-io3bg]

Jimmys 20$ coffee in the bubble was hilarious

[@Scrimshaw_DuBois42]

I started watching but I had to stop like a minute in. I realized I still haven't recovered

[@gh0stm0nst3r6]

They look so young!

[@CBFW_KO]

this reminds me of how unfortunate it was that we never got a laker vs clippers conference finals

[@YaBoyyJohnNBA]

W Bam love 🔥

[@jamesmarshall6619]

Finally, one of these that isn't about the Suns and my sports trauma.

[@jon_s849]

One of the greatest blocks in NBA history

[@IgnitedMHK]

I was really hoping Jimmy would get a ring that year after all the stuff he went thru, even tho most ppl knew the chances were thin

[@vknudsen3]

How has the Stockton three over Houston not been rewinded? Rewound?

[@drfredostein4410]

Did anybody else find it weird that the block wasn’t the rewind moment?

[@kahlillwilliams180]

Can we get a rewind on the AD shot in the WCF against the nuggets in game 2

[@nicklamonica8647]

Really didn't want to have to watch this again as a Cs fan

[@yosoyjohnlee]

@secret base, give a Rewinder of Damian Lillard's buzzer beater to send the OKC Thunder home in 2019, pls!

[@markweitzman3696]

You gotta do the Derrick White game winner now. Ik the Celtics didn’t win the series but it’s still such a huge moment

[@bigxboomxbruh9964]

Tatum getting blocked like that is a top 3 moment in Celtics history he should be honnered

[@blackboyblues6727]

As a Celtics fan, i didn't need to see this🥺🥺🥺

[@frostyxmeboi8878]

Like he said himself BAM “By Any Means” he tryna grind always. I like “Box Anyones Man” homie gonna play defense one way or another.

[@MrReese]

11:43 Is it actually allowed to block in a downward motion? I used to think that as soon as the ball moves downward you're not allowed to interfere anymore, otherwise someone could just wait under the rim and scoop all incoming shots up. Or is that only a rule that applies when the ball is in the free air, i.e. not driven by a player?

[@doruka890]

I think dunks are an exception yesss

[@__dino2329]

This was 4 years ago…. I feel so old

[@fickdich973]

Well, you're a dino after all

[@andrewsaul2497]

As a Celtics hater, and heat fan, inject this directly into my veins

[@ethanbrown4628]

Nah this is one of the moments I will never get over 😂😂 if he did anything but try and dunk the ball we win that game and the series is changed. I think that was such a big momentum changer for the series even though it was game 1. This game vaulted them for years imo

[@Unknown77370]

I think dames shot against the thunder deserves a deep rewind…

[@MysteicVoltronus]

When Inside the NBA gets canceled, TNT needs to pay you guys for the rights to do content like this.

[@peace_of_mind_00]

Heat nation 👍

[@unstoppabledelay]

Seeing the ecf game but Denver vs clippers was still going throws me off because I’m a laker fan so I’m like nah weren’t we in the wcf but I genuinely forgot nuggets beat clippers in 7

[@timinator8498]

There is no need for a rewind for this at all

[@DanaOrangeTookYourCash]

That’s crazy Jimmy and the heat are the first 5th seed and first 8th seed also first play in to reach a final.

[@lilgrabbo6142]

This is exactly what I needed mmmmmmm

[@KJSCalderon]

0:03 It's September 15th 2020, We're in Mickey Mouse's backyard in Orlando Florida. DAMN, IT'S THE BEGINNING OF THE VIDEO AND THEY ARE THROWING HAYMAKERS

[@jdapaul1351]

Still waiting for Game 3 of 2017 Finals.

[@icetredotnet6473]

Me and the boys lost our minds watching this during lockdown.

[@jimboslice303]

Dikember embracing the basketball after upsetting the top seeded supersonics deserves a deep rewind

[@saltyshadowyt]

Dropped the video as soon as I got my food, too clutch

[@Billy-ot8mk]

Got to feel bad for Kemba Walker, finally got on a winning team and it didn't work out for him.