Bam Adebayo scored a historic 83 points to surpass Kobe Bryant’s single game mark
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Miami Heat star Bam Adebayo made NBA history on Tuesday night.
Adebayo scored 83 points, all while setting league marks for free throws made and attempted in the Miami Heat’s 150-129 win over the Washington Wizards. Second-highest scoring game by a player ever, only Wilt Chamberlain’s legendary 100-point game.
“It was a surreal night,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra told reporters after the game.
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Adebayo started the first quarter with 31 points. He was up 43 at halftime, 62 at the end of the third quarter. Then came the fourth, when the points kept falling despite facing doubles, triples- and what appeared to be a quadruple team from the Wizards defense that kept sending him to the foul line.
He finished 20 of 43 from the field, 36 of 43 from the foul line, 7 of 22 from 3-point range.
After the game, he was seen in tears as he hugged his mother, Marilyn Blount, before walking off the floor after the game.
“Welp won’t have the highest job in the house anymore,” wrote Adebayo’s girlfriend, four-time WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson, on social media, “but at least it gives me something to go after.”
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Bam Adebayo #13 of the Miami Heat celebrates in the fourth quarter of the game against the Washington Wizards at the Kaseya Center on March 10, 2026, in Miami, Florida. (Megan Briggs/Getty Images)
The NBA’s season high was 56, by Denver’s Nikola Jokic against Minnesota on Christmas night. The last player to have 62 points in three quarters: one of Adebayo’s basketball heroes, Kobe Bryant, who had that many points in three quarters for the Los Angeles Lakers against Dallas on Dec. 20, 2005.
He also passed Bryant for single-game scoring. Bryant’s career high was 81 – the second-best NBA scoring streak for two decades.
Adebayo scored 31 points in the first half against the Wizards, breaking the Heat’s record for points in any quarter — and tying the team record for points in a first half before the second quarter even started.
He finished the first half with 43 points, a team record for any division and two points better than his previous career high — in a full game, that is — of 41 points, set Jan. 23, 2021, against Brooklyn.
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Adebayo’s season high entering Tuesday was 32. He matched that with a free throw with 5:53 left in the second half, breaking the Heat’s first scoring record.
Adebayo’s 43-point first half was the NBA’s second-best in at least 30 seasons — dating back to the start of the playoff era that began in the 1996-97 season.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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