Miami Heat star Bam Adebayo makes NBA history with 83-point game

Miami Heat prima Bam Adebayo made NBA past connected Tuesday night.

Adebayo scored 83 points, each portion mounting league marks for escaped throws made and attempted successful a crippled for the Miami Heat successful a 150-129 triumph implicit the Washington Wizards. It is the second-highest scoring crippled for a subordinate ever, lone to Wilt Chamberlain's famed 100-point game.

"An perfectly surreal night," Heat manager Erik Spoelstra told reporters aft the game.

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Adebayo started with a 31-point archetypal quarter. He was up to 43 astatine halftime, 62 by the extremity of the 3rd quarter. And past came the fourth, erstwhile the milestones kept falling contempt facing double-, triple- and what erstwhile appeared to beryllium a quadruple-team from a Wizards defence that kept sending him to the foul line.

He finished 20 of 43 from the field, 36 of 43 from the foul line, 7 for 22 from 3-point range.

After the game, helium was seen successful tears portion helium hugged his mother, Marilyn Blount, earlier leaving the level aft the game.

"Welp won’t person the highest vocation precocious successful the location anymore," Adebayo’s girlfriend, four-time WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson, wrote connected societal media, "but astatine slightest it gives maine thing to spell after."

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Bam Adebayo #13 of the Miami Heat celebrates during the 4th fourth of the crippled against the Washington Wizards astatine Kaseya Center connected March 10, 2026, successful Miami, Florida.  (Megan Briggs/Getty Images)

The NBA’s erstwhile champion this play was 56, by Nikola Jokic for Denver against Minnesota connected Christmas night. The past subordinate to person 62 points done 3 quarters: 1 of Adebayo’s hoops heroes, Kobe Bryant, who had precisely that galore done 3 quarters for the Los Angeles Lakers against Dallas connected Dec. 20, 2005.

He coiled up passing Bryant for single-game scoring arsenic well. Bryant’s career-best was 81 — a crippled that was the second-best connected the NBA scoring database for 2 decades.

Adebayo scored 31 points successful the opening 4th against the Wizards, breaking the Heat grounds for points successful immoderate 4th — and tying the squad grounds for points successful a archetypal fractional earlier the 2nd 4th adjacent started.

He finished the archetypal fractional with 43 points, a squad grounds for immoderate fractional and 2 points amended than his erstwhile vocation precocious — for a afloat game, that is — of 41, acceptable Jan. 23, 2021, against Brooklyn.

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Adebayo’s play precocious entering Tuesday was 32. He matched that with a escaped propulsion with 5:53 near successful the 2nd quarter, breaking the Heat first-half scoring record.

Adebayo’s 43-point archetypal fractional was the NBA’s second-best successful astatine slightest the past 30 seasons — going backmost to the commencement of the integer play-by-play epoch that began successful the 1996-97 season.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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