{"id":648130,"date":"2026-03-09T02:45:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T02:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/648130\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T02:45:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T02:45:39","slug":"bam-adebayo-joins-dwyane-wade-as-the-miami-heats-only-10000-point-scorers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/648130\/","title":{"rendered":"Bam Adebayo joins Dwyane Wade as the Miami Heat’s only 10,000-point scorers"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Bam Adebayo<\/a> remembers what people thought of him nine years ago, when the Miami Heat<\/a> drafted a then-teenager out of Kentucky after his lone college season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m someone who got drafted to play defense, and everybody thinking I was just a lob threat,\u201d Adebayo said.<\/p>\n

He’s evolved since.<\/p>\n

Adebayo joined Dwyane Wade as the only 10,000-point scorers in Heat history on Sunday night. Adebayo entered the night 23 points shy of the milestone; he got 24, helping Miami to a 121-110 win over the Eastern Conference-leading Detroit Pistons.<\/p>\n

Adebayo \u2014 the Heat captain, a title they take seriously in Miami \u2014 is on pace to average at least 18 points per game for the sixth consecutive season. He made four 3-pointers on Sunday night, giving him 94 for the season and matching his total from the last two seasons combined.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust shows the growth of my game,\u201d Adebayo said. \u201cObviously, this organization believes in me. I\u2019ve been here that long so I can get 10K with the same team. And obviously, being in the history books behind somebody like D-Wade, it’s a great accomplishment.\u201d<\/p>\n

He’s got a long way to go to catch Wade, who scored 21,556 points for the Heat. But there is another mark well within Adebayo’s reach.<\/p>\n

Adebayo is second on the Heat rebound charts behind the player he replaced as captain, Udonis Haslem. He has an outside chance of catching Haslem by the end of this season \u2014 he would need 207 rebounds in Miami’s final 17 games \u2014 and has said that’s the only record he’s really chasing.<\/p>\n

And he’s still, without question, the anchor of Miami’s defense. Heat coach Erik Spoelstra regularly touts him as a defensive player of the year candidate, but the scoring is not overlooked.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe came in not known necessarily as a scorer,\u201d Spoelstra said. \u201cHe\u2019s worked and willed himself into that. And for this particular team, his scoring is really important.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Bam Adebayo remembers what people thought of him nine years ago, when the Miami Heat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3778],"tags":[1179,7,144,295,189,3881,1407,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-648130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-bam-adebayo","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-heat","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-heat","13":"tag-miamiheat","14":"tag-national-basketball-association","15":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116196928531391238","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648130","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=648130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}