weren\u2019t fans of how it played out<\/a>. The game was lopsided enough for the Heat to have sat Adebayo under normal circumstances. But the team left the All-Star center in the game and continued to feed him despite the win already being in hand.<\/p>\nBarkley was upset for a different reason. The Hall of Fame power forward appeared on Saturday\u2019s ESPN Tip-off show and lambasted the Wizards for showing \u201cno pride whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m disgusted by the Wizards,\u201d Barkley said. \u201cAs a competitor, you\u2019ve got to go dirty. \u2026 When you\u2019re down 20, and the game is over, and now a team is like, \u2018just go for the record,\u2019 you\u2019re disrespecting me. I thought the Wizards, who\u2019ve got no pride whatsoever, obviously they\u2019re tanking, but you\u2019ve still got to have pride. If a guy\u2019s doing that, you\u2019ve got to knock him on his a\u2013.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Wizards did start triple-teaming Adebayo down the stretch, but he had already tallied around 70 points before Washington had the sense of urgency to get the ball out of his hands.<\/p>\n
Adebayo\u2019s 83-point game has become a polarizing topic, with many criticizing various aspects of the historic night. It\u2019s gotten to the point that Heat team president Pat Riley has felt the need to send a profane message<\/a> to those disparaging what Adebayo accomplished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Barkley was not happy with the Washington Wizards for allowing Bam Adebayo to etch his name in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[1179,7,2001,6,682,468,3892,683],"class_list":["post-659605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-wizards","tag-bam-adebayo","tag-basketball","tag-charles-barkley","tag-nba","tag-washington","tag-washington-wizards","tag-washingtonwizards","tag-wizards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116233144371679629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659605","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=659605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}