{"id":652006,"date":"2026-03-11T03:46:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/652006\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T03:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:46:19","slug":"miami-heats-bam-adebayo-scores-83-points-second-most-in-nba-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/652006\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Heat\u2019s Bam Adebayo Scores 83 Points, Second Most in NBA History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Miami Heat big Bam Adebayo etched his named in the history books earlier tonight, scoring a whopping 83 points against the Washington Wizards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The momentous total places him second, behind only Wilt Chamberlain\u2019s 100-point feat in 1962 when he represented the Philadelphia Warriors against the New York Knicks. Adebayo now sits ahead of Kobe Bryant\u2019s 81 points in 2006 and Chamberlain\u2019s 78 points in 1961.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Adebayo led the heat to a 150-129 win against the Wizards, registering 83 points while shooting 20 of 43 from the field, 7 of 22 from three and 36 of 43 from the free throw line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Prior to tonight\u2019s game, the Heat big had averaged 18.9 points on 44.7 percent shooting from the field and 33.0 percent shooting from three, to go with 9.8 boards, 2.9 assists, 1.1 steals and 0.7 blocks. The next highest scoring Heat player was Simone Fontecchio with 18 points off the Miami bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Heat big Bam Adebayo etched his named in the history books earlier tonight, scoring a whopping 83&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,6,3101,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-652006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-news","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","15":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116208495323349520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652006","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=652006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}