[Highlight] Bam passes Kobe for the second-highest NBA scoring game ever
I think the NBA world as a whole understood this might happen, with all the recent 70 point games
But if you gave everyone ten thirty guesses, I don’t think anyone would have thought that BAM ADEBAYO would be the one to do it
This has to be the most unexpected game in history
This is like if Linsanity happened to a player who was already an all-star
Lmfao that’s so fucking accurate
If it’s anything like Linsanity Bam’s gonna drop 101 next time he sees your Raptors
Fortunately Scottie is too good of a defender to let that happen lol, but it would be interesting to see happen icl
I like Scottie, but he’s no Bub Carrington /s
Linbamity
I think its closer to the equivalent of an All-star Malachi Flynn game lol
“How does Bam Adebayo score 83 points?” is a strange enough question.
“By going 36-43 from the line.” is an even stranger answer.
TBF it still means he scored 47 points chucking.
“Rims down there somewhere”
Dude got the non-Wilt scoring record off 36 FTM and a 46% shooting night. Domestic terrorism-ass statline, this is incredible
So he was over 50% until there was like 4-6 mins to go and the record was in sight
Chucking is a very kind description lmao.
He took 43 tries from the “charity stripe”?? Fouled 43 times? Is that Shaq attack gone wrong?
The last quarter was basically us feeding him the ball and letting him do whatever he wanted. Wizards were resting starters at that point and they just kept triple teaming and making contact. He was shooting really well before the 4th, just started chucking it after a while and the team kept trying to feed and extend it.
Wizards really did foul him most of those times. We also played zero defense, they got 130 after all.
Bam just kept making all his free throws at the end too.
Best way to run up the score is to not play defense, fr
He definitely didn’t get fouled 43 times. That’s not how fouls and FTs work…
Nobody has even scored 60 yet this season, and Bam not-so-casually scores 83 out of nowhere. I’m in disbelief.
With only 7 threes, almost everyone thought it’d be a dude making 20+ threes to get 80+
The 43 FTA make up for it. No one ever accounted for it.
He did shoot 22 in the end lmfao
Yeah but he didn’t shoot threes well lol
Really puts Wilts 100 into perspective. He literally had to shoot almost every shot.
Bam took 43 of his team’s 90 FG attempts, so ~48% of his team’s shots. In the 100 point game Wilt took 63 of his team’s 115 FG attempts (~55%). Much faster paced game back in the 60s!
Problem is he outta nowhere goes like 95% from the line on like 35 FTs when he’s usually shit at them.
He probs stole buckets by goal tending a lot
I wouldve guessed D’Angelo Russell before Bam
Cam Thomas would’ve been higher on my list lmao
100% haha. Cam Thomas would be stealing the ball from his teammates dribbling up the court to get to the number
High school freshmen would be higher on my list
You would probably guess almost 50 players before Bam. Obviously every player definitely better than him (so maybe 20-25?), and then probably another 20 that we wouldn’t be surprised to just go on absolute heaters, cause Bam has never really been the type to do that.
Someone a few days ago made a thread mentioning no 70 point games this season, then THIS!
Adam Silver read that thread..told bam go do it
There hasn’t been a ton of 70 point games recently lol
There were 4 over the span of 60 years from ‘63-‘23, then 4 over the span of 3 years in ‘23 and ‘24. That’s certainly a ton
It was that one season a few years ago that had like 4 70 point games but it’s been quiet since. And those games were from who you could see: Luka, Mitchell, Dame, and Embiid.
No one. Not even Bam. Would’ve thought Bam would score the second most points ever.
Is this more random than Malachi Flynn’s 50?
Malachi might be more random. You could’ve guessed 200 players before you hit malachi would get 50.
I think you are underestimating how many guesses I would need before I guessed Malachi
I genuinely argue that game was definitely more unexpected. I literally never heard of him before hand
This is the most insane sports achievement in history. It’s the equivalent of Ben Zobrist hitting 6 HRs in a game.
His previous career high was 41.
Bam beats Kobe’s record for second most all time points in a game with 83. Just as we all predicted.
We all saw it a mile away.
Lebron had a feeling
Once he shot that 5th free throw I thought … “he mine as well go for 43 FT attempts.”
Yeah get ready for the documentary.
People gonna bring up how he statpadded in garbage time but completely ignore that he was getting triple teamed full court after 70.
The commentator said not even Kobe got that treatment when he was nearing 80
Kobe didn’t get that treatment cause their game was still tight (ish) tbf this was statpadding in blowout central
I was rooting for him to break 80, but it was pretty absurd to watch the heat intentionally foul to get the ball back faster.
Suns did that with Booker too, teams want to feed their guy and get him points there’s nothing wrong with that
I have no problem with it.
Because it’s the Wizards job to stop it.
If they can’t figure out a way to stop ONE player from scoring, that’s on them.
At this point, they’re not even playing to win, literally just to stop ONE player. If you can’t sell out to stop ONE player then you deserve your place in the record books.
He was triple teamed on the play before he got the pass to drive down the court and get fouled allowing him to get 82 and 83.
That’s because they were down and they needed the 81 to win
Heat were up 25 when bam had 72 points lmfao.
They proceeded to foul immediately every play at inbounds to get Bam the ball back.
Lmfaooooo hilariously cheap. But records hang forever. Very surprised Spo went along given how awful that was to watch. Lmfao.
Raptors defended Kobe like he had 15 points.
You must’ve missed him ramming into ppl for crazy foul calls. Teammates missing FTs on purpose for possessions. What an embarrassment
It’s not embarrassing. It’s fun as hell. Everyone knows Bam doesn’t have a night like this in him again. So go nuts and let him have his fun. These guys are pros. They wanted to see if he could hit the big 82 and he did it. It was otherwise a blowout, nobody playing would have given a single fuck. Instead we were seeing triple teams, full court defenses, guys boxing out like their life depended on it and setting screens. That shit was awesome.
Who gives a shit lmao, in 20-30 years it’ll be a record still, and most people won’t give a shit
This was so random lmao.
Kobe is in the afterlife cheering Bam on.
Edit: Holy hell the people here are toxic assholes
Kobe looking up smiling 🥺
You really think Kobe is the kind of dude that would be happy seeing his records broken lmao, he’s seething in hell.
Look at his last instagram post before his passing.
Someone asked him if it’d kill him to congratulate someone for once.
Holy hell the people here are toxic assholes
Like…Kobe?
Malachi Flynn 50 vs Bam 83, which is crazier
Bams 83 lmao this is insanity
Bam and A’ja son will be the GOAT !Remindme 25 Years
Imagine your less successful parent athlete having scored more in a single game than anyone but Wilt
He’ll always have this over A’ja lmao
She’s gonna try to top it at some point
It’s like the Reggie and Cheryl Miller story. Reggie is bragging about scoring like 40 in a high school game, Cheryl then puts him down since she scored 100 the same day.
I believe she could do it
Absolutely. With all due respect, if Bam could do it, A’ja could do it.
She could if WNBA games were 48 minutes but they 40, you’d have to score like 30 in the first 10 minutes and then decide to play the whole game to make it happen so its a lot harder
Good point. Fwiw, Bam only played 42 minutes, so if A’ja played every minute of the game, she’d be very close, and she could potentially do it in an OT game.
Does A’ja get to play the Wizards?
We got two expansion teams this year, anything is possible
She will always have more championships though.
Nah, because A’ja has the most points in a WNBA game now.
Something like 53 right?
Their kids will have so much pressure on them it’s crzy 😭
He’s gonna be an accountant. Or a geologist
Just picture it. His son scoring 85 on the Wizards, who are still in the lottery, 25 years after his dad did it.
“who are still in the lottery”, haha. You have no mercy for those poor Wizards.
Until he meets Wembys kid with some 6’8 Brazilian Instagram model
They both hate basketball and become heated rivals in the battle for power in middle managment in some random AI company.
He will be Shaq 2.0 if that’s even possible considering how dominant Bam was this game and A’ja has been her whole career.
Also both of them are tall and strong AF so who knows?
It’d be wild if he ended up being a punter.
Or daughter!
Bam and A’ja daughter will be the GOAT !Remindme 25 Years
respectfully, bam is the last player i would ever expect to get 50..let alone 80!
also 59 FTs and the Wizards had no one foul out lol wut
The last 5-7 minutes were just them intentionally fouling to get Bam the ball back so that’s why no one really fouled out
Edit: it was more of the last 2-3 minutes starting around 2:30 to be more accurate
Not intentionally fouling, they were double and tripling teaming him and he was just throwing some shit up through contact
Oh I didn’t phrase my original comment well, I meant the Heat were intentionally fouling the Wizards to get the ball back for Bam.
That was only around the 230 mark. It’s absurd nonetheless but let’s not exaggerate. It was craziness on both sides without changing the truth.
IIRC players also did this to get Wilt 100 points.
Yeah I didn’t have the exact timing I was just going off what I heard from a friend which was obviously wrong edited my original comment
This is one of those games where all I could just do was laugh as he continued to get whatever he wanted. 40+/40+ for fga and fta. Completely ludicrous performance. I’m still in shock. Shout-out Spo for giving him the minutes so he can feed the fans
While getting triple teamed for basically 25 points of it lol
Completely took the record from Kobe without consent. Didn’t take no for an answer tonight
Just like Kobe would have
r/yourjokebutworse
My favorite thing is when someone takes a somewhat subtle joke and beats you over the head by spelling out what the joke is supposed to be.
Just like all my favorite comedies have a laugh track. Them laughing tells me when I’m supposed to laugh.
That’s all I could think of… Kobe saying “shoot it”, what if I’m triple teamed? “Shoot it”
People will see 43 FTA but need to watch highlights. Dude was being HARD defended as the wizards tried valiantly to not have a record broken on them. Not like he had some soft whistle. He was just on absolute fire
And fouled hard as hell all game.
43 FTA, most FTA in a single game in NBA history lmao
20⁄43 from the floor
7⁄22 from 3
36⁄43 from the line
Absolute insanity
Couldn’t watch this game as someone living in Virginia but I’m having a hard time imagining the sheer volume of shots
The 4th was absolutely shameless, there were a lot of threes thrown up over doubles that were absolutely gross, but tbh half the time heat players grabbed the rebound and he’d charge down the lane only to get fouled within a second of catching the ball. Incredibly forced but the Wizards made it so easy.
And the final few minutes they were denying the catch so hard he was having to dribble full court against double or triple teams and would still get inside the arc only to get fouled again.
Personally I’m here for it, if a team can’t stop a player when his wide open teammates aren’t even looking at the basket then that’s on them.
Sarr with 28 points in 20 minutes, what the fuck was going on in this game lmao. How do you take 43 shots in one game??
Mamba mentality
Career defining game.
I WAS FUCKING HERE
Eric “Not Mike McDaniel” Spoesltra is the GOAT for letting him get it
For a second I thought they were gonna pull him at 81 to be classy.
THEN MY SPOAT SAID FUCK NO WE AINT THE DOLPHINS
Lmao what’s the context? Tried to be a good sport by not running up the score?
Yep. Could have topped the highest score by just getting a field goal but basically decided to stop at 70. Like, what’s the fucking point? You’ve already put 70 on these bitches just keep going.
Dolphins dropped 70 on Denver a few years ago and had a chance to kick a field goal to break the Super Bowl-era all-time single game record and instead opted to just knee the ball on 4th down.
That was the day I knew in my heart of hearts that Mike McDaniel is soft
and it all went down hill from there
And everything fell apart after that. They should have gone for it and been ruthless
I WAS HERE
Just woke up from cryogenic sleep, is Bam Adebayo the GOAT?
It is known
Many people are saying it
AdebayGOAT
43 free throw attempts.
SGA could NEVER 😤
as a Raps fan. I thank Bam for his service tonight. That Kobe 81 game was over our heads for a while
Now your watch has ended
youre welcome rap bro
Thanks for getting Bosh a ring and Lowry a cheque.
I’m glad Bam didn’t do it against the Raps.
Now I’m worried about April 7 & 9 vs the Heat…
Jalen Rose can finally rest easy. Alex Sarr it’s your burden now
I wish the shit 2K NPCs helped me stat pad like this
They actively hurt you. They’d rather run out the shot clock than throw up a shot with you in position for the rebound when you play center.
woke up this morning and had a feeling Bam was going for 83 - LeBron
“I saw he had 70, I said yep, he’s going for 83 tonight.” - LeBron
Most points ever in a game with video proof
I get what you’re saying but you’re not implying Wilts 100 pt game is unrecognized are you?
He’s just saying there’s no video proof
The nba wouldn’t fake a 100 pt game for a black dude in the 60s
Nobody is saying they faked it, just that there’s no video proof lol
This shit is really fucking funny.
WE ARE HERE TO WITNESS
We are witness
Spo is the goat
He’s a real one, no doubt.
When he was challenging charges up 20 in the 4th Q, I truly loved that man
JXMYHIGHROLLER HAS BEEN PUT ON NOTICE
I can’t wait for the video lmao
his latest video topic was “can anyone break wilts record” just a week or so ago and now this happened. crazy
the answer has officially changed from “no” to “yes”
This sport is so unpredictable man
This gives me hope that Jerami Grant can score 100.
LMAO last few minutes were absdolutely hilarious. Heat fouling to extend the game and missing free throws on purpose, Wizards triple teaming on the inbound and fouling other guys.
4-D chess shit: Heat throwing bad inbounds to draw away Bam triple teaming, allowing the Wiz defender to then score, only for the Heat to inbound to a now double teamed Bam T midcourt (who then would get fouled as he would try to score)
Congrats Bam. But Jesus this league is embarrassing.
Exactly
Not to take anything from this game. It’s an incredible achievement. But let’s not forget that Kobe’s best game wasnt his 81 against the Raptors. He was way ahead of that pace when he outscored the Mavericks 62-61 in 3 quarters and decided not to play the 4th.
A guy does something incredibly impressive and all you do is whine about “waaaah the league is trash and embarassing”?
I bet a lot of Lakers fans will cry their rapist idol got passed
on a random ass tuesday night lmaooo
Least ethical 80 piece in history
Raptor fans happier than Heat fans on god. LFG
He did it OMG
That Booker type ending ruined some of it for me.
That’s what Wilt did too if you look at any of the reports of that game.
I was gonna say if you read any of the reports from the time, they were doing everything possible to get him to 100
Playing garbage minutes forcing every type of shot, while the heat foul just to get possession back, disgusting all around
We saw the 81 record fall before GTA6
BAM HAVING THE SECOND HIGHEST SCORING GAME WAS NOT ON MY 2026 LIST
I’m sure even the most hardcore Heatlifer wouldn’t have this on any list
I think Kobe would’ve been proud of him
Every wizard player and staff member should have their seasons game checks taken back.
ERIK SPOELSTRA IS THE GOAT COACH
EVERYONE GET IN HERE
Adebayo of all people, what the fuck lol
I’m sad as a Kobe fan, but even he would respect this scoring performance.
I mean, they did force-feed him the ball for 5 mins straight and were actually fouling the Wizards to conserve the clock. It kinda became a joke for the last 10 points.
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Maybe the wizards should stop fouling then
Buddy if it was that easy we’d be seeing it every night
Y’all really can’t enjoy shit
Heat intentionally fouling up 30 is a disgrace idc
Basketball fandom is cooked when a guy scores 83 and people are going ACKSHUALLY 🤓
Just nothing but negativity
HOLY SHIT
WHAT ON GOD’S GREEN EARTH IS GOING ON?
EVERYONE GET IN HERE HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE
Corniest shit I’ve ever seen, and I’m a Bam fan. Kobe scored 81 because they needed it to win the game. Meanwhile you got the heat up 30 with 4 minutes left intentionally fouling so bam can run into the lane and force more free throws in order to break the record. Has to be the corniest thing I’ve ever seen in the NBA. Hands down.
Were the Wizards in on this? I’ve just watched them intentionally foul Bam for the last 20 minutes
we all knew it was a matter of time before Edrice Adebayo, career 18.9 ppg player, hit 80
BAM fucking bam is the one. In disbelief
He literally statpadded the whole 4th Quarter, this record is a joke. Intentionally fouling while up 25 to get extra possessions, challenging calls, jacking back to back 3s over 3 man guarding. This shit is honestly shameless.
Anyone saying this is a masterful performance is just whack.
GO FOR 101
That’s fucking awesome.
Historical performance
This was bush league. He deserves the 70 but the last 13 was forced and his teammates mad a mockery of the game. I do wanna say biggest thing to me is just how awful the wizards are lol…Someone might score 80 again on them