{"id":532367,"date":"2026-03-11T02:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532367\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T02:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:56:09","slug":"bam-83-point-historic-night-for-adebayo-in-win-over-wizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532367\/","title":{"rendered":"Bam! 83-point historic night for Adebayo in win over Wizards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bam Adebayo had 31 points in the first quarter, 43 by halftime and 62 by the end of the third quarter.<\/p>\n

MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Bam Adebayo scored 83 points, the second-best scoring effort in NBA history, to carry the Miami Heat to a 150-129 win<\/a> over the Washington Wizards on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Adebayo had 31 points in the first quarter, 43 by halftime and 62 by the end of the third quarter. He finished 20-for-43 from the field, 36-for-43 from the foul line and 7-for-22 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

Adebayo\u2019s free throw makes and attempts both set NBA records for a game.<\/p>\n

The record for attempts was 39 by Dwight Howard \u2014 who got to the line that many times on two occasions. The record for free throws made in a game was 28, set by Wilt Chamberlain and Adrian Dantley.<\/p>\n

Chamberlain got the 28 free throws on the night he scored 100 points<\/a> in 1962 \u2014 the only game better than Adebayo in NBA history. Adebayo passed his basketball idol, Kobe Bryant, for the second-highest scoring game ever; Bryant\u2019s career-best was 81<\/a>.<\/p>\n

LeBron James had the previous Heat single-game scoring mark; his 61-point effort against Charlotte happened on March 3, 2014.<\/p>\n

Denver\u2019s Nikola Jokic had the previous season high in the NBA this season with 56.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bam Adebayo had 31 points in the first quarter, 43 by halftime and 62 by the end of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,264267,590,85],"class_list":["post-532367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bam-adebayo-83-points","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}