[Highlight] Spoelstra congratulates Bam as he checks out of the game with 83 points
Fouling up 20+ for your guy is unironically the sign of a great coach. Fuck injury risk or made up rules of sportsmanship, this is the kind of thing guys wanna play for
Thas real as fuck man. One of the biggest issues I have with the modern game is that load management deprives us of unforgettable games like this. And look, I get it, you don’t wanna risk your star getting injured by farming stats in a blowout, but this is special fr
I remember when Klay got 60 in 3 quarters and after the game he said he could’ve gone for 80. I don’t doubt it, but I’m always pissed they didn’t let him go for it. He’s a professional athlete, they play 70+ games a season, sometimes they have to play OT without any warning, he would’ve survived one extra quarter for the chance to actually make NBA history. If that’s not worth playing for then idk what is
Kerr did let him start the 4th but Kerr ruined so many potential legendary games.
I think Kerr is OK about how things played out. I’m pretty sure the players and fans are satisfied too.
Nope they’re all upset about it
Which is why we are talking about it
Seriously, bots whining about how hard it was to watch. Meanwhile the whole bench and arena was losing their mind all game
Especially lakers flairs bitching about it lmao. We all know what they’re really crying about.
There is nothing to complain about this, its history, the Wizards tried everything to make it not a real game as well to stop him. I think if the wizards played normally, Spo wouldn’t even need to do all that. No one cares if Bam played ethically basketball and passed out so he would end with 75 but they would win by 10 more points so his teammates could get more buckets
And Spo is an ultra-conservative challenger. We hate it. I straight up CACKLED when he challenged
Spo loves fun more than he hates challenges lmao. Absolute legend shit.
I didn’t know about his hatred for challenges but him IMMEDIATELY challenging after the foul call also had me cackling as well. I tuned in for the last 6 minutes of the game and that was entertaining af.
And they didn’t start doing that until the Wizards started trying to prevent it (including fouling off the ball to keep Bam from getting it).
Enabler extraordinnaire
Why the f he take him out with a minute left tho
He beat Kobe but had no chance of catching Wilt. It was the right time.
Could have let him get a few more points and taken him out with a few seconds left
For the standing ovation and applause. Crowd really lost their minds all game, it was awesome.
Yup. They will remember this night forever and smile about it.
This is actually a great PR for Miami Heat. I’d like to play for them if I’m a free agent.
Fuck the free throws, the wizards entire gameplan became wrestle Bam so he doesn’t score.
Wilt’s 100pt game feeling
At one point the Wizards fouled someone else so Bam couldn’t get the free throws, and then the homie intentionally missed his last ft to try and get bam the rebound. This game was something else lmao
Spo challenging the charge on Bam with 2 min left lmao Watching Washington triple and quadruple team him as he took the ball up the court. NGL it was cinema. Ethical basketball? Probably not but who fucking cares. Never see coaches let there guy go for it in a game like this. I certainly was entertained all the way to the end.
It’s like spo gave him this game as a thank you or something.
Ya probably and I think that’s awesome.
And shit, it worked out in our favor
Hack a Bam but our guy can hit FTs
Even got proof of this one.
He probably doesn’t even get it if they don’t do all that
Yeah he was bricking everything the last 5 minutes
He was gassed and you could tell, I’m shocked the wizards didn’t just guard him straight up
Did you really think the wizards would play smart basketball?
worked against them since free throws were his best shot
Exactly. He was so gassed he was missing bunnies
I’ve never seen a game where tue game play is to constantly quadruple team a player.
He was in the game up 30 lol. It was anything but ethical
if Spo sat him with a chance to break the record and the Wizards running the dumbest defensive gameplan I’ve ever seen, the players would unite and overthrow him
If a guy can go out and get 83 the ethics fall on the other team lol idc if its a depleted team of a bunch of MyPlayers
Intentionally fouling up 30 is the Wizards fault?
Bam was so gassed at 70 that they could have stopped the record by switching to just straight up D from anyone. He had no legs to get 83 other than free throws lol
Actually yes, because they started it. It was a normal game at first, Wiz even got the lead down to 13 in the 4th (so you bet Spo was doing whatever he thought best to plain win).
After we pulled away (thanks to more Bam), then the Wiz started double and triple teaming him and hacking. Then the Heat started becoming silly too.
…And thats when a basketball game turned into pure ludicrous cinema
He stat padded for 30 minutes
Cry today, cry tmrw, cry forever
I’m not gonna cry, but I’m definitely not gonna call that a good game. Dude brought down his shooting averages on his career high
“That’s a bad shot”
Do you think Wilt just happened upon 100? lol that’s how these records happen. You put in the effort on an incredibly hot hand, realize greatness is achievable, and try to force it
I haven’t seen wilts. But I watched Kobe get 81 and I watched Luka get 73 and I watched Melo get 62 and bron get 61. They all had unreal games and weren’t statpadding the entire night. This game wasn’t even good outside of the first quarter. He took 30 more free throws and 10 more shots than Luka did in a close game to win when he got 73—that’s how those games should be.
Turns out when you’re being triple teamed and fouled hard, because you have an insanely hot hand, you’re gonna shoot free throws. Not sure why that’s a knock on him. Did you only look at the box score and nothing else or something?
Bam also had 43 at half and *62 after 3. But sure it was just stat padding at the end
EDIT: 62 after 3, not 60. What a bum tbh
I bet 90% of the people complaining about the free throws just looked at the box score.
This wasn’t SGA shooting 43 free throws. It was a relatively clean 43pts in the first, but come 3rd quarter, Wizards were getting really physical and double teaming Bam. When he got 62 at the end of 3, Spo kept him in (suggesting he was giving Bam the go-ahead to score as much as he could).
They were even intentionally fouling Bam! When he bringing the ball, clearly lining up for a 3 (that would have tied Kobe), they fouled him before he could attempt it.
Bam in the first quarter was a monster. he had 32 points on 10⁄16 and made 5 3’s which is 25 points without the fts. Insane performance in the 1st.
But the stat padding was not impressive. He started hunting for points and the rest of the game he went 10⁄27 from the field and 2⁄15 from 3 with 37 free throw attempts. 37% from the field and 13% from 3 with 37 fta.
No one is going to care or remember that he chucked a bunch of shots to go for a record. It’s entirely worth it. If he did this in a meaningful close game it’d be one thing but who cares if he had a below average efficiency on the road to a record at the highest level.
I watched the game. It was a way worse game than all the other all time games. That wasn’t even the best game this year.
Didn’t expect Bam Adebayo of all players to have random Reddit haters but here we are lol. Congrats I think
SPO A REAL ONE
This is the players equivalent to letting your divorce finalize before signing a huge new contract.
100%
83⁄100
Seriously props. We had a chance to see something cool. This was a good call
He kept Bam in first of all even though it was a blowout. And then their game plan became all about giving Bam the foul. They’d foul the Wizards so that they could give Bam the ball faster. Also Bam was put on the ball to try and get more fouls
I’m glad this happened. I’m glad I wasn’t watching
Filipinos in shambles. He let Bam beat Kobe’s record
All the Filipinos I know are Steph fans now
can confirm
Spo if silipino as well, so it’s all good.
Actually hilarious he had the team take fouls so Bam gets the ball faster lol
Challenge the charge!
Great for team chem too
What does this have to do with the coach?????
Usually you pull your best players when winning big in the fourth but spo knew what was on the line and how much his players wanted it
Spo knew he’d never have another chance at it. Well unless they play the Wizards again this season
They’ll play again next month. Imagine if Bam beats this record the next game they play. Shits going to be hilarious.
Pretty sure the Wiz are going to triple team him right off the bat, and the refs are going to whistle less, no matter whether if Bam gets slaughtered or not just because of the backlash his 43 FT attempts got tonight.
I mean, most people see this statsheet and don’t bother to look more into it. It’s just « foul merchant » arguments all over. Same with Wade in the 06 finals.
Doesn’t matter if fouls are legit or not. Fouls have to be called, but if you get more than 10 FTA, you’re PoS. That’s just r/NBA and nba nephews’ logic
Who in the absolute fuck would have thought, on a Tuesday night in March, that they’d go to a Miami Heat game and watch Bam Adebayo break multiple single game records and score the 2nd most points in a single game in the history of the NBA? Those fans will have this moment for the rest of their lives, as well as us watching at home. Incredible!
Would have been some of the cheapest tickets of the year for the best experience of the season
Literally they were 8 bucks, I’m kicking myself as I didn’t want to drive down for the game.
No way to know though. There was a much greater chance for the game not to be worth it lol just happened to be the one
We had folks offering it for free. The head mod of the sub literally just got them randomly lol
If teams are gonna blatantly tank, then fuck them, let the stars put up ridiculous numbers like this and at least give the fans something fun to watch and cheer for! I love that they left him in the game with a big lead and tried to get him more points. Washington threw sportsmanship out the window before the game even began.
That does it, I’m buying season tix to the wizards games to witness potential history next time
I definitely would’ve thought this about a Wednesday in April, but never about a Tuesday in March.
Tuesdays in March are the new Wednesdays in April. Half Life 3 confirmed.
How many people missed 20 of his points by showing up late?
Womp womp.
Makes me think 100 is possible. He went 7⁄22 on 3
I mean if you let a guy shoot the ball damn near 70 times in a game I think there’s a few guys who could get 100
Bam got lucky af
commenting this in every thread huh
Dawg im sleepy so I thought I was glitching seeing that same comment lol
I’m like “ope, I been to this thread already…. wait a minute…”
100’s happening within the next couple of season. Maybe even this year.
They just need to do what MyPlayer did which is refuse to pass the ball and simply shoot all greens
This is why I always play point guard.
I pass the ball only to get triple double with steals and pts and just shoot for the rest of the game.
Average 100/10/10 and then the GM tells you they cant give you max contract quite yet
Who the fuck is gonna go for 100, its gotta be somebody just an unexpected. Jalen Brunson, or LaMelo or something.
Zach Lavine, Ant Edwards…
God not LaVine, I’d be inconsolable
Yeah I agree on Ant, I could see him having an insane night
Luka
Luka starting hot early 90+% fg and sustaining that for 4 quarters is definitely possible
Not sure if his stamina would allow him. Maybe if he shot a lot of FTs.
He got baby momma problems, his heads gonna be out of focus for a bit I think. If this claim comes back to bite me, it’ll be hilarious though
Luka got 73 the game after a Hawks fan hit him with the treadmill comment
All it takes is one stupid fan saying something about his kids and he’s gonna go obliterator on that franchise
oh no when do they play the bulls next
If Luka got the same amount of shot attempts and free throws as Bam he gets 100
Yep, Knicks just have to give Shamet the chance
Do you see how much work it took to get Bam to 83? No one is touching 100 dude
Do you see that Bam Adebayo just scored 83 points?
Would Wemby be the safest bet? I feel like it’ll have to be a player who gets to the FT line.
Its only possible if the coach actually keeps their player in to do it. So far no coach has been this shameless
Booker got 70 doing this
The real part of that equation is the opponent team not trying everything in their power to stop the player. Give Bam another OT and I am not sure if he is scoring 90 even with the additional time
Yeah he was tired in the end so he’s legs probably went dude was also shooting over 3 people
This is more shocking than the Luka trade.
Honestly, yeah kinda. Time travel back 2 years and tell someone that Luka gets traded and that bam adebayo drops 83, I bet the latter is more unbelievable
Luka gets traded is way more believable. But if the dogshit package was included then it would be very hard to choose which was true lol.
I guess with a 2 year window, it would have been more believable because then you could be like maybe the next 2 years, AD is super healthy and Luka regresses, so they do it. But doing all that after the Finals run is nuts. Still take Bam probably though as the bigger surprise
ok but what if you told that person what luka gets traded for. the return for luka is pretty unbelievabl(y bad)
True but I think it becomes slightly more believable than Bam 83 cuz it’s the lakers. If anyone is on the winning side of some bullshit like that it’d be the lakers
Thats fair. Im convinced
I mean if you go to the right year for AD it gets better lol
Lol as a Mavs fan it’s hard to see which is crazier
The center had 22 3 point attempts and 43 free throw attempts. what is this NBA
Bro was playing MyCareer in real life
for the first time as far as I know, I watched Bam ignore a rebound and leak out
Silvers NBA
Good, let it fly
My apologies to Bam. I apparently was not familiar with his game.
The Wizards definitely are now
Love Spo letting him go for it. There’s always been the healthy narrative that Bam doesn’t get his flowers for how impactful of an NBA player he is. But you can’t take this record away or deny 83 points. Couldn’t have happened to a better dude imo
Seemed almost like a “lifetime achievement” award/gift when they were hugging at the end. Basically recognition from the franchise.
ESPN: What does Spo have against the late, great Kobe Bryant?
Real talk, Bam and Tatum are like best buds. It’d be hilarious if Bam held this over Tatums head 😭
Spo is so sick Kerr is not doing allat for Steph if he’s on pace for 80 he’s subbing his ass at the start of the 4th 😭
Warriors were contenders when that was happening. Heat is 7th in the east right now. I think Kerr would do the same
And it’s Bam of all people, he doubled his old personal scoring record tonight, Steph is actually an offensive juggernaut
Even got pulled in the 3rd for some of his best ones. Was always bitter Kerr never let him get to a more iconic total. Steph definitely could have been in 70s and maybe even hit 80
Yo am I dreaming?
Thank you for letting him stay in the game and not pulling him.
I love spo!!!
He did not give a fuck and wanted bam to get it so badly
So many other coaches would have pulled out their player.
Damn the last min were painful to watch with all the fouls
Respect to Spo for letting him chase. It always pissed me off when Kerr would pull Steph super early when he was on a heater
Spo’s a god damn legend for going complete fuck it mode and keeping bam in lol
Get this man a ring now
COACH SPO A REAL ONE
COTY
All the late game fouling to stop the clock was hysterical 🤣
Wizards were triple teaming this guy full court inbounds
I don’t think I’ll ever seen anything like that again in my life
Bro went OFF. Beat the free-throw record made by 8 free throws. Super hard to score that much for the span of a whole game. Shows you how bad the Wizards are, too. Super random for a random March night.
BAM FOR MVP
Lebron was watching this with his boys and told them, bam might go for 70 tonight. No lie he did. Then when he got to 70, he said, bam will get 80. Lebron just had a feeling.
LeSage told his Maw last week Bam was getting 82 tonight. Crazy.
the whole team paced this so well with him on the floor.
Thank you Spo Goat Coach.
Spo the goat for letting him ride that wave. Yeah guys are gonna say over 40 free throws it was kinda unethical but it’s in the history books forever
Why would Spo betray his Filipino heritage by letting Bam beat kobes record?
Seems like there were a lot of Kobe fans on the Wizards. They were trying to deny Bam the ball or foul other Heat players instead.
I mean wizards are a young team, the current age of young teams would have been like 14-15 during the second kobe finals run. Wouldn’t be suprised if a large chunk of the NBA has him as their goat
I was here when this happened
Laker fans 9⁄11
call me saudi arabia because im cheering it on
So the Heat can make the ECF
Should kept him in… refs couldn’t had him get to 100
Bamonte!!!
Why don’t coaches run things up more often? Seems odd when thy sub them out or let the foot off the gas
Why was today different?
These circumstances will likely never happen again.
Shit defensive team
Norm, Wiggins, Herro, Ware, Jovic all out so it justifies the minutes
Alex Sarr was matching him early so his energy level stayed high
Wizards stayed juuuust close enough (like 11-15) until about 6 minutes to go and by then he was already close
Like it just all came together tonight
The fact they weren’t doubling him when he got to 60+ is just basketball insanity. At that point you take the L, and you try to prevent your team giving up fucking 83 points. Like, that’s just dog shit coaching. How do you not try to run most of the shot clock out on O? Like you said, so much had to go right for this to happen, and a big part of that is the Wizards being absolute trash. Truly unbelievable
Because this is Bam’s only chance to make history this way. And most players never have that chance.
He would have rested if he had had like 40 points in the 4th quarter. But when he has 60 something and the game is basically already won… statpadding to get to the record makes more sense than benching.
So why didn’t Kobe do itM he coulda best wilts record. Heat was up 30 fam
Nah it was down to 14⁄15 with 5-6 minutes left. Heat have blown those kind of games before.
There’s just weird pride or institutional elements with more coaches and players. Sometimes it goes off the rails and they go with it
We’ve seen 20 point firsts before and they let off the gas from those players
We’ve seen 35 point first halves.
This is a weird one
I mean, Luka has 20 points in the first quarter several times a year. And he only broke 70 points once, in a game that was close till the end.
Spo woulda got Wilt 150
Adam Silver punching air rn
Not hating but just feel like this record won’t last long & we’ll have a 90 point game real soon 💀
Most my player game score ever
I hope this opens a floodgate of coaches not giving a fuck anymore and letting their players run that shit up.
This is absolutely insane lol. I thought the headline on the NBA app was a joke.
Love how happy Spo and Norm are for him. Bam is a good teammate. I’m glad he broke Kobe’s record.
Spo doing extra things to break Kobe’s record, love it
I was really surprised when he didn’t get subbed out at the start of the 4th
Holy shit
Any hightlight of spoelstra getting super intense during the last quarter
Anyone have the stat for how many total shots he took regardless of free throws?
I hate how when a guy shoots and is fouled, if he misses it doesn’t count as a FGA but if he makes it it counts as a FGA. Great for box scores but impossible to find the total shots numbers
Unethical 83
INSANE ! But 43 free throws attempted …
Bam with 83 shows the absolute state of the NBA right now
Idk did you see his first quarter? That was what everyone envisioned what he could turn into 5 years ago.
No one envisioned bam scoring 30 a quarter 5 years ago..
YES
ROT IN HELL KOBE
43 free throws lmao. Leagues a joke
Lololol not deserved over Kobe
All of the rapists records need to be broken