{"id":517599,"date":"2026-03-11T19:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/517599\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T19:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:07:10","slug":"adebayos-83-puts-him-with-girlfriend-aja-wilson-for-major-distinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/517599\/","title":{"rendered":"Adebayo’s 83 Puts Him With Girlfriend A’ja Wilson For Major Distinction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat center <\/a>Bam Adebayo<\/a>‘s historic 83-point performance<\/a> Tuesday (March 10) moved him alongside his girlfriend, Las Vegas Aces center and four-time WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson<\/a> for a major distinction.<\/p>\n

Adebayo is now the NBA’s active single-game leading scorer, joining Wilson, who is the WNBA’s single-game leading scorer with a 53-point performance against the Atlanta Dream in 2023. The three-time WNBA champion joked that she “won\u2019t have the highest career high in the house anymore \ud83d\ude2d but at least it gives me something to go after” in a post shared on her Threads account<\/a> after attending Tuesday’s game, with the Heat defeating the Wizards, 150-129.<\/p>\n

Adebayo finished with a record 36 free throws made and 43 attempted, while his 83 points surpassed late Basketball Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant’s 81-point performance on January 22, 2006 by two points and putting him 17 points shy of late Basketball Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game, which stood as the NBA record since March 2, 1962.<\/p>\n

“Like I said, I wish I could relive it twice,” Adebayo told reporters via ESPN<\/a>. “So this is a special moment. Wilt, me and then Kobe — which sounds crazy.”<\/p>\n

The Heat shared a photo of Adebayo holding up the number 83 written on a piece of white paper while sitting in his locker on their social media accounts, referencing Chamberlain’s iconic photo doing the same with the number 100.<\/p>\n

“An absolutely surreal night,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra<\/a> said via ESPN.<\/p>\n

Adebayo scored 31 points in the first quarter, 43 at halftime and 62 at the end of the third quarter. The three-time All-Star went 20-of-43 from the field, 7-of-22 on 3-pointers and recorded nine rebounds, three assists, two blocks and two steals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo‘s historic 83-point performance Tuesday (March 10) moved him alongside his girlfriend, Las Vegas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[650,8910,402,17590,79221,233959,151969,4677,8173,355,2520,233960,99,19185,434],"class_list":["post-517599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-aja-wilson","tag-bam-adebayo","tag-basketball","tag-center","tag-champion","tag-distinction","tag-girlfriend","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-performance","tag-scoring-game","tag-sports","tag-wilson","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}