{"id":657537,"date":"2026-03-14T06:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/657537\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T06:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:51:21","slug":"bam-adebayo-calls-out-nba-fan-media-agenda-against-83-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/657537\/","title":{"rendered":"Bam Adebayo calls out NBA fan, media ‘agenda’ against 83-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bam Adebayo has heard the criticism toward his 83-point scoring explosion earlier this week.<\/p>\n

The Miami Heat star tallied the second-highest scoring game in NBA history at home against the Washington Wizards in one of the more surprising sports moments in recent history. And the media reaction was largely negative<\/a>. Some argued Adebayo cheated his way to the scoring total. Others mocked the circus-style basketball that both teams played down the stretch once it became clear Adebayo could catch Kobe Bryant\u2019s longstanding 81-point mark<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But in an appearance on\u00a0The Dan Patrick Show on Friday<\/a>, Adebayo argued that the negative reaction to the performance was because he didn\u2019t fit the \u201cagenda\u201d from NBA fans and commentators for what a scorer looks like.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t part of the \u2018agenda,’\u201d Adebayo said. \u201cIt shocked the world because it wasn\u2019t somebody who they glorify as a scorer, as somebody who can get that record.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later, Adebayo said that some of the criticism likely came because people don\u2019t watch enough Heat games \u2014 and may not have been watching the 83-point game, either.<\/p>\n

The Heat have blown leads against inferior teams too often lately, Adebayo said, and he wanted to shut the door on Washington, especially with leading scorers Tyler Herro and Norman Powell sidelined for the game.<\/p>\n

Adebayo also noted that while Miami and coach Erik Spoelstra<\/a> may have shoveled scoring opportunities toward Adebayo down the stretch, the Wizards partook in plenty of shenanigans themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t like, \u2018The Miami Heat are just sh*tting the game away,’\u201d Adebayo said. \u201cIt was also them being like, in order for Bam not to get this record, we\u2019re just going to foul his other teammates when he touches the ball. That\u2019s unethical basketball to me, whatever you want to call it. People are going to try (to poke holes, but) what I did out there was special to me and everybody who knows how hard I work behind the scenes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bam Adebayo has heard the criticism toward his 83-point scoring explosion earlier this week. The Miami Heat star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[1179,7,144,295,189,3881,6,11807],"class_list":["post-657537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami-heat","tag-bam-adebayo","tag-basketball","tag-heat","tag-miami","tag-miami-heat","tag-miamiheat","tag-nba","tag-the-dan-patrick-show"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116226215533050094","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657537","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=657537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}