{"id":366240,"date":"2025-10-25T14:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/366240\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T14:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:45:13","slug":"heat-breaks-record-for-points-in-a-single-half-against-grizzlies-hot-hot-hoops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/366240\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat breaks record for points in a single half against Grizzlies &#8211; Hot Hot Hoops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-24-at-6.16.58-PM-1024x676.jpg\" alt=\"Heat Grizzlies\" class=\"wp-image-12094\"  \/>(Photo Courtesy of the Miami Heat \/\/ Twitter)<\/p>\n<p>No, what you saw in the first half wasn\u2019t a dream. I can\u2019t pinch you.<\/p>\n<p>The Miami Heat broke their record for points in a single half on Friday night against the Memphis Grizzlies, scoring 86, four more than their previous total that has been set three times. <\/p>\n<p>Bam Adebayo led the charge with 20 points, scoring 18 first-quarter points with four 3-pointers; Simone Fontecchio had 14 points on four made threes of his own in his lone eight-minute stint; Norman Powell added 12 points \u2014 including the pair of free throws to officially set the record \u2014 while Andrew Wiggins and Kel\u2019el Ware had 10 points apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Only one Grizzlies player \u2014 Ja Morant (12 points) \u2014 had double-figure scoring. <\/p>\n<p>Miami could not miss, shooting 57.7 percent from the floor and 10-of-16 from 3-point range. <\/p>\n<p>The last time the Heat had 82 points in a single half was against the New Orleans Pelicans on April 25. The Heat have scored 80-plus points four times since the start of the 2018-19 season.<\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s anything to take away from the first six quarters, it\u2019s that Miami is committed to pushing the pace. The spacing has looked excellent in transition, as has the ball movement and dribble penetration \u2014 both of which have led to wide open takes \u2026 and makes!<\/p>\n<p>More of all this, please! Even though an unintended consequence \u2014 at moments \u2014 is poor defense, this is the most effective way for the Heat to win games. <\/p>\n<p>Their execution is on another planet. The shooting won\u2019t be sustainable, but the process is!<\/p>\n<p> ***<\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking news story. Stay tuned for updates!<\/p>\n<p>To check out our other content, click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hothothoops.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Hot Hot Hoops on Twitter\/X\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hothothoops?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Follow Hot Hot Hoops on Instagram\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hothothoops?fbclid=PAAaZK-uxa3cMPUQcM2z6aGmK3faJ-G1R7YKtEOcPJNPO4VwfOvw1epBIoCyk_aem_Ad_aZ7zQwWkfVN5rHfd0UkIWrYEnU4j4Ulz0SRK__Qt1738L-NeQ3cZC5voFks7V6K8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our YouTube channel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hothothoops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo Courtesy of the Miami Heat \/\/ Twitter) No, what you saw in the first half wasn\u2019t a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[8457,7,294,144,55827,3948,177,295,189,3953,3881,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-366240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-2025-26-miami-heat-season","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-grizzlies","11":"tag-heat","12":"tag-heat-grizzlies","13":"tag-heat-news","14":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","15":"tag-miami","16":"tag-miami-heat","17":"tag-miami-heat-news","18":"tag-miamiheat","19":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115435348085180689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}