{"id":188406,"date":"2026-03-12T09:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188406\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T09:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:01:22","slug":"nba-bam-adebayo-scores-83-points-as-miami-heat-beat-washington-wizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188406\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: Bam Adebayo scores 83 points as Miami Heat beat Washington Wizards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old described it as a &#8220;special moment&#8221; and said he &#8220;really got emotional&#8221; when he realised the scale of his achievement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I wish I could relive it twice,&#8221; Adebayo said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paying tribute to his family and trainers, he said: &#8220;They&#8217;ve seen me at the lowest, at the bottom of the bottom, trying to figure out how to really pick myself up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To have this moment and share it with all them, it&#8217;s a pretty emotional moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Los Angeles Lakers beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 120-106 at home thanks to Luka Doncic&#8217;s 31 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Lakers climbed to fourth in the Western Conference, ahead of the Timberwolves on a tie-breaker as they both have 40-25 records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eastern Conference leaders the Detroit Pistons moved to 46-18 with a 138-100 win at the Brooklyn Nets as Jalen Duren scored 26 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 28-year-old described it as a &#8220;special moment&#8221; and said he &#8220;really got emotional&#8221; when he realised the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-188406","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\/188406","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=188406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}