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 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’s free throw makes and attempts both set NBA records for a game. 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
Adebayo spent his first three years of high school at Northside High in Beaufort County<\/a>. He transferred west to HPCA for his senior year. As a junior at Northside, Adebayo averaged 32.2 points and 21.0 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n Even without playing in the N.C. High School Athletic Association his senior year, he’s second all-time in rebounds.<\/p>\n He Chamberlain got the 28 free throws on the night he scored 100 points 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’s career-best was 81.<\/p>\n LeBron James had the previous Heat single-game scoring mark; his 61-point effort against Charlotte happened on March 3, 2014. Denver’s Nikola Jokic had the previous season high in the NBA this season with 56.<\/p>\n Adebayo passed them both in the third quarter \u2014 and just kept going.<\/p>\n Simone Fontecchio scored 18 points for Miami (37-29), which has won six straight and moved a season-best eight games over .500. The Heat were without Norman Powell (groin), Tyler Herro (quadriceps), Nikola Jovic (back) and Andrew Wiggins (toe).<\/p>\n Alex Sarr had 28 points for the Wizards, who were without Trae Young \u2014 held out with right knee injury management. Will Riley added 22 and Jaden Hardy scored 17 for Washington, which has lost nine straight.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tUp next<\/p>\n Wizards: Visit Orlando on Thursday.<\/p>\n Heat: Host Milwaukee on Thursday.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/p>\n HighSchoolOT’s J. Mike Blake contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Bam Adebayo scored 83 points, the second-best scoring effort in NBA history, to carry the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25123,2205,15960,1548,87701,123,125,2490,124,2295,87700],"class_list":["post-186758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-ap-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-bam-adebayo","tag-good-news","tag-high-point-christian-cougars","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-heat","tag-miami-news","tag-nba","tag-northside-monarchs-of-jacksonville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n was a five-star prospect coming out of high school and enrolled at the
\nUniversity of Kentucky. A one and done in college, Adebayo was selected
\nby the Miami Heat with the No. 14 overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft.
\nAdebayo has spent his entire NBA career in Miami, making it into three
\nAll-Star games, helping the Heat reach the NBA Finals twice, and winning
\n two gold medals for Team USA.<\/a><\/p>\n