{"id":528768,"date":"2026-03-11T09:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/528768\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:22:09","slug":"bam-adebayo-becomes-second-highest-single-game-scorer-in-nba-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/528768\/","title":{"rendered":"Bam Adebayo Becomes Second-Highest Single-Game Scorer In NBA History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/adebaba01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-10_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bam Adebayo<\/a> scored 83 points in the Heat\u2018s victory over the Wizards on Tuesday, becoming the sole owner of the second-highest scoring game in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-467645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Bam-Adebayo-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\"  \/>In doing so, Adebayo passed Kobe Bryant\u2018s longstanding 81-point second-place mark, which the former Lakers star recorded on January 22, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Adebayo went 7-for-22 from three and 36-for-43 from the free throw line. He broke the NBA record for made free throws (previously 28, by Adrian Dantley and Wilt Chamberlain), attempted free throws (previously 39, by Dwight Howard), and became the first player ever to ever attempts 30 or more free throws and 20 or more three-pointers in a game, per The Athletic\u2019s Mike Vorkunov (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeVorkunov\/status\/2031556276564435049?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the night, the Wizards were triple-teaming Adebayo and intentionally fouling his teammates just to keep the Heat\u2019s center off the free-throw line, but a quick spin move in transition drew the shooting foul and allowed Adebayo to reach his goal. He was subbed out soon after getting to 83 points.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Erik Spoelstra said the three-time All-Star made his decision-making down the stretch easy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t even dare think about taking him out,\u201d Spoelstra said, per Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun Sentinel (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IraHeatBeat\/status\/2031558576154521853?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Chamberlain\u2019s 100-point record has remained unbroken since March 2, 1962.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bam Adebayo scored 83 points in the Heat\u2018s victory over the Wizards on Tuesday, becoming the sole owner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14736,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-528768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bam-adebayo","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}