What Bam Adebayo thinks of A’ja Wilson’s historic WNBA supermax contract

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Bam Adebayo believes A’ja Wilson’s historic WNBA supermax contract is a sign that the women’s game is finally getting the financial recognition it has long deserved.

Wilson’s new deal is bigger than one player cashing in after another dominant stretch. It reflects years of pressure, growth, and rising visibility, finally producing a contract that looks different from anything the league had seen before.

That is why Adebayo’s reaction carried weight, because he was not just reacting to the number itself, but to what it says about where the WNBA is headed.

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A’ja Wilson’s supermax contract earns Bam Adebayo’s approval

Reacting in comments shared via Zach Weinberger, Adebayo made it clear he saw Wilson’s deal as long overdue.

“About time. They’ve been fighting for this for a long time. So, for them to have that opportunity to obviously get super-max, and it has the ‘M’ at the end, you see how much the game is growing, how much their game is growing, how much attention is surrounded by their game,” Adebayo said.

The contract backs that up. Wilson agreed to a three-year deal worth about $5 million, making it the richest contract in WNBA history and the first deal of its kind to put a player comfortably into seven figures annually.

Her 2026 salary is set to begin at roughly $1.4 million, which underlines just how dramatically the market has shifted under the league’s new financial structure.