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11 March 2026, 13:13 WAT<\/p>\n
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Bam Adebayo score 83 points to become di second highest number for NBA game afta Miami Heat beat di Washington Wizards 150-129.<\/p>\n
Dis na veri high record for di history of di National Basketball Association (NBA) since 2006.<\/p>\n
Di Miami Heat star Bam Adebayo produce di second highest single game scoring \u200cfor NBA history, to overthrow Kobe Bryant wey score 81 points for 2006.<\/p>\n
Di 28-year-old centre dey just 17 points behind Wilt Chamberlain \u2060100-point outing wey dey stand as di highest record since March 2, 1962.<\/p>\n
Kontinu to dey read<\/p>\n
Adebayo score 36 of 43 free-throws – records for di most free-throws attempt and most free-throws for Kaseya Center in Miami.<\/p>\n
“Na Wilt, me, den Kobe, dat sound crazy,” e tok.<\/p>\n
Bam Adebayo describe di outing as “special moment” and say e get “really emotional” wen e realise di scale of im achievement.<\/p>\n
To score 83 points for single game na record wey no dey common for basketball but dis record by Bam Adebayo don challenge many tins for im career.<\/p>\n
E pay tribute to im family and trainers wey e say ‘dem don see am at di lowest, at di bottom of di bottom, and to get dis moment dey pretty emotional.’<\/p>\n
No doubt say wit di name Adebayo, na pesin wey get Nigerian root and dat one don totori several basketball lovers for Naija.<\/p>\n
Record wey Bam Adebayo break<\/p>\n
Bam Adebayo set Miami Heat records for di highest-scoring game and di highest-scoring quarter.<\/p>\n
Di old club mark for game na 61 points for \u20602014 by LeBron James.<\/p>\n
Adebayo shoot 20-for-43 from di floor, 7-for-22 from 3-point range and 36-for-43 at di free-throw line. E also grab nine rebounds.<\/p>\n
Abebayo also set NBA single-game records for most free throws and most \u200cfree-throw attempts.<\/p>\n
Chamberlain and Adrian Dantley na di former record-holders for foul shots, wit 28 each.<\/p>\n
By di end of di first quarter, Bam get 31 points to top LeBron James 25 points record wey e do two times.<\/p>\n
Bam become di sixth player for NBA to score 30 for quarter since NBA play-by-play dey available since 1996.<\/p>\n
E be di first player for NBA history to make 25 free throws and five 3-pointers for a game.<\/p>\n
Profile of Bam Adebayo <\/p>\n
Bam Adebayo dey play im international basketball for Team USA, but e get close connection to Nigeria through im father.<\/p>\n
Im mama Marilyn Blount bin move from New Jersey to North Carolina wen e be seven years wey make di parents live apart. But Bam still embrace im Nigerian father name.<\/p>\n
Dem born Bam Adebayo for 1997 to a Nigerian Yoruba father John Adebayo, and African American mother.<\/p>\n
Im full name na Edrice Femi Adebayo but dem give am di nickname “Bam,” at di age of one. E attend Northside High School for Pinetown, NC.<\/p>\n
E bin attend di University of Kentucky for one season (2016 to 2017) and become Kentucky player to start all 38 games for 2016 to 2017.<\/p>\n
For 2023, Bam Adebayo reach NBA Finals wit Miami, and don play seven NBA seasons wit Miami.<\/p>\n
E be three-time NBA All-Star (2020, 2023, 2024), one-time NBA All-Defensive First Team (2024) and four-time NBA All-Defensive Second Team (2020-23).<\/p>\n
E be member of di 2020 U.S. Olympic Men Basketball Team wey get di 5-1 record to capture fourth-straight Olympic gold medal for Tokyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wia dis foto come from, Peter Joneleit\/Getty Images 11 March 2026, 13:13 WAT New Informate one hour wey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-187249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187249","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=187249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}