Steven Adams – Net Worth, Draft, Wingspan, Rings and More – Top Five Things You Did Not Know About

Steven Adams has been in the NBA for 12 years now and in that time, the man from New Zealand has played for three teams in the league. The journey to the NBA started at a very young age for Adams, whose parents encouraged him to play multiple sports. The genes came from his father English father Sid Adams, who played for the Royal Navy and then settled in New Zealand and had eighteen kids with five different women.

Adam stood at six-foot eleven-inch and his children all inherited the height genetics, with Steven Adams’ average height being 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) tall. Sports run thick in the family. Adam’s two of his half-sisters are athletes: Dame Valerie Adams is a dual Olympic gold medallist and four-time world champion shot-putter and Lisa Adams is a para athlete who has won gold at the Paralympics in shot-put.

To pursue his NBA dreams, Steven Adams, enrolled at Notre Dame Preparatory School to get used to American basketball before he joined the University of Pittsburgh. After one year at the University of Pittsburgh, Adams decided to declare for the NBA draft. He was drafted as the 12th overall pick in the first round of the 2013 draft by the Oklahoma City Thunder. For seven years, he was their starting center before he was traded to the Pelicans.

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Adams was drafted as the 12th overall pick in the first round of the 2013 draft by the Oklahoma City Thunder. He spent seven seasons with OKC. On 24 November 2020, Adams was traded to the New Orleans Pelicans.[42] As part of the deal, he signed a two-year, $35 million extension with the Pelicans.

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