The ceremony was brief, maybe two-and-a-half minutes during halftime of the Miami Heat’s win over the Charlotte Hornets on Friday.
The occasion cemented Bam Adebayo’s status in Miami Heat lore.
The Heat on Friday unveiled a banner in the rafters of FTX Arena commemorating Adebayo’s gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics this summer.
As the ceremony unfolded, Adebayo — with a gold medal draped around his neck, his mother Marilyn Blount by his side and a large U.S. flag at midcourt, smiled and lifted his hands in the air as gold streamers popped into the air and the banner was shown to everyone in the arena.