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Miami Heat star Bam Adebayo made NBA history on Tuesday night.
Adebayo scored 83 points, all while setting league records for free throws made and attempted in a game for the Miami Heat in a 150-129 victory over the Washington Wizards. It is the second-highest scoring game for a player in history, surpassed only by Wilt Chamberlain’s famous 100-point game.
“Absolutely surreal night,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra told reporters after the game.
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Adebayo started with a 31-point first quarter. They reached halftime with 43 and 62 at the end of the third quarter. And then came the fourth, when the milestones continued to fall despite facing a double-team, triple-team and what once appeared to be a quadruple-team from a 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 crying while hugging his mother, Marilyn Blount, before leaving the court after the game.
“Well, I won’t have the highest career record in the house anymore,” Adebayo’s girlfriend, four-time WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson, wrote on social media, “but at least it gives me something to chase after.”
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Bam Adebayo #13 of the Miami Heat celebrates during 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 previous NBA best this season was 56, by Nikola Jokic for Denver against Minnesota on Christmas night. The last player to score 62 points in three quarters: one of Adebayo’s basketball heroes, Kobe Bryant, who scored exactly that many in three quarters for the Los Angeles Lakers against Dallas on December 20, 2005.
He ended up outscoring Bryant in a single game as well. Bryant’s career-high 81 was a game that was second-best on the NBA’s scoring list for two decades.
Adebayo scored 31 points in the first quarter against the Wizards, breaking the Heat record for points in any quarter and tying the team record for points in the first half before the second quarter even began.
He finished the first half with 43 points, a team record for any half and two points better than his previous career high, that is, for a complete game, of 41, set on January 23, 2021, against Brooklyn.
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Adebayo’s season-high entering Tuesday was 32. He tied it with a free throw with 5:53 left in the second quarter, breaking the Heat’s first-half scoring record.
Adebayo’s 43-point first half was the NBA’s second-best in at least the last 30 seasons, dating back to the start of the digital play-by-play era that began in the 1996-97 season.
