Bam Adebayo Scores 83 Points to Enter the NBA Record Books

Bam Adebayo scored 83 points against the Washington Wizards on Tuesday night, the second-highest scoring game in NBA history, surpassing Kobe Bryant's 81-point game and falling just short of Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point record from 1962.

Adebayo's historic performance included NBA records for free throw attempts and makes in a single game, as he carried a shorthanded Miami Heat team to a 150-129 victory.

Sixty four years after Wilt Chamberlain's 100, and Bam Adebayo needed one night: 83 points against Washington on March 10, 31 of them in the first quarter, carrying a Heat missing Herro and Wiggins among four absent regulars to a 150 to 129 win. Half the haul came at the line, 36 makes on a record 43 attempts, erasing marks held by Wilt Chamberlain and Adrian Dantley together and Dwight Howard alone CBS Sports. Wizards coach Brian Keefe could not explain the sixteen foul shots Adebayo drew in the fourth quarter, and Charlotte's broadcasters mocked the count days later Basketnews. It is Wilt, then Bam, then Kobe, and the order stands until somebody else survives a night like this.