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MIAMI (AP) \u2014 A\u2019ja Wilson wouldn\u2019t take her seat Tuesday night. The four-time WNBA MVP and star of the Las Vegas Aces got to the arena that the Miami Heat call home, saw that longtime boyfriend Bam Adebayo was off to a sizzling start<\/a> and worried that she was going to disrupt the karma of the evening.<\/p>\n Eventually, she did settle in along the baseline.<\/p>\n She wound up seeing history.<\/p>\n Adebayo isn\u2019t the most decorated player in his own home \u2014 Wilson has that title by a wide margin \u2014 but at least now he has the highest-scoring game to brag about. He scored 83 points, the second-most in NBA history, in Miami\u2019s 150-129 win over the Washington Wizards<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI was hiding a little bit,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cI don\u2019t know. I just got nervous.\u201d<\/p>\n No need. Adebayo was in the midst of the game of his life, and nothing slowed him down.<\/p>\n Wilt Chamberlain has the NBA single-game record of 100 points, and Adebayo now has the most among active players in his league. Wilson\u2019s career high is 53, which is the most among active players in the WNBA and is tied for the all-time league mark.<\/p>\n A power couple, indeed.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m thankful to have her in my life,\u201d Adebayo said.<\/p>\n He got himself out of trouble on Tuesday as well. Wilson has been out of town for a few days, and wasn\u2019t there on Sunday night when Adebayo scored 24 points \u2014 giving him 10,001 for his career. Wilson wanted to be there for the milestone. Adebayo got it without her in the building.<\/p>\n That didn\u2019t go over well.<\/p>\n \u201cShe wanted me to wait,\u201d Adebayo said. \u201cTo have 83, the first game she\u2019s here, is very special. The behind-the scenes, the workouts, the conversations, they\u2019re very motivating and you get inspired every day by that.\u201d<\/p>\n So, as if scoring 83 points wasn\u2019t enough \u2014 in a game where he set NBA records with 36 free throws made and 43 free throws attempted \u2014 Adebayo got one more bonus Tuesday night. He\u2019s out of the doghouse that came with scoring 10,000 with Wilson not there.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s forgiven,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Feel more informed, prepared, and connected with WIS. For more free content like this, subscribe to our email newsletter<\/a>, and download our apps<\/a>. Have feedback that can help us improve? Click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 WIS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NOTE: The above video is a livestream of WIS featuring current newscasts, Soda City Living and Gray Media\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-518192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518192","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=518192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}