The way he coached the end of the game was crazy too. He was trying literally everything to help Bam get over the line. And the Wizards were trying to do everything possible to stop it.

Genuinely makes Spoelstra look great as a coach. Recognizes that this is a once in a career opportunity so you may as well take the chance to make your impact on the record books while you have the chance.

Wade hit 55 and Spo pulled him out afterwards saying he would do it again so wasnt worried about it. Wade in fact did not do it again.

This was Spo learning and trusting in his player.

He’s my GOAT that’s for sure

The People’s Coach.

He knows the game is meant to be fun and put his team in position to keep having fun. He moved up a lot of GOAT spots for me.

I didn’t hear no bell

I don’t know how people thought Wilt got 100 but they should read up on ancedotes of that game.

Yeah it’s not like we are going to see this regularly, just let a statistical outlier be a statistical outlier.

Yeah entertainment is entertainment at the end of the day. Were Heat fans wholeheartedly cheering for Bam to get the record? Yeah. Was I laughing at the absurdity of Bam getting 83 on 43 free throw attempts? Yeah. But both sides were entertained.

Sucks that people are so hater brained that they can’t watch a record be broken withoht some bullshit complaining

Also…it’s the Wizards, who gives a shit. Just have some fun.

It can be fun, exciting, and have ended with stat padding. No issues with the game, HOWEVER this performance and Kobe’s 81 in a tight game are not the same to me.

Perfect “Are you not entertained?” moment.

These dudes get paid to play and entertain. Love to see this.

But seriously 43 FT what happened to modern NBA

Thank you. So many miserable clowns out here complaining about how it was done, completely discrediting how monumental this achievement is.

I do miss when basketball was serious though.

Complaining? lol They are making fun of it. It’s super laughable. That’s exactly the “lighten up” you are talking about.

Frrr

People find reason to complain about everything

It’s stupid to complain about that, Booker, Kobe and, as far as every proof that we have of that game, even Wilt did everything to score, with the whole team and coach only objective being for they to score as much as possible in any way necessary.

It’s cool to have the random entertainment like this but I think the issue some have is that these records signify special moments by big players. Is it really gonna be bam adebayo sitting at second all time in a scoring performance? Especially when it was so obviously forced? People are gonna look back and joke about this era of basketball and use that as one of the examples.

They’re Kobe Stans who are pissed that one of Kobe’s greatest achievements was just eclipsed. You should check out r/Lakers rn. Plenty of salt to go around in there.

he wasnt flopping either, the Wizards just could not stop fouling him

Not only that, this is what makes basketball fun! We all dreamed that this was us when we were kids running around on the court.

“Fun” and non-competitive I guess

Dude was missing everything and still scored 83

Bam caught Spo out on the town with a mistress huh?!

Spo had this man on a leash until he turned 28. Criminal. Bam barely got a full green light this season. Never seen a player develop this much in my life offensively as he was drafted as a draymond-like prototype with some raw offensive upside. Every year seems like his range was extended by a foot until finally this year it’s behind the line. Bam could score 25-28ppg if that was the goal, but he plays fluidly in the offense to him a win is the same even if he scored single digit points. Bams development was partially stunted because of Jimmy. They didn’t want to develop Bams offense too much when they had championship potential, so they utilized him where he’s the best in the league at - Setting screens, passing as a big, pick n roll, handoffs, switching on defense 1-5, locking up anyone and everyone. They kept it simple for Bam because there were rings on the line for 4 or so years.

I hope one day we get the lost footage of Wilts game 

lakers fans calling this shit fraudulent when wilts 100 literally isnt on tape

Under. I give it 3 days.

I can already hear it “And then there’s Bam Adebayo” as the chart zooms out

He’s gonna make a 15 minute video with 3 minutes of actual good stuff

Can’t wait to see what graph he makes for this where he can dramatically pan up to this game

Bro was just talking about the wilt record lmao. He’ll probably make one on sga and bam this week

His last visit ironically is about beating wilts record and he brings up kobe obviously a lot.

easy under

“Wilt. Bam. Kobe.”

When you ask your two standard questions and can’t think of anything else so you ask your first question again

He’s so god damn corny. I love him.

Is that the interviewer that Bam messes with all the time? Saw a montage a few days ago on here but can’t remember if it was her or not.

Tatum’s phone just vibrated, a reply from Kobe that says “lose my number”

Brooo

it wasnt shameless when he put him 31 in the 1st and 43 at half. hes not in the position to statpad if he didnt absolutely go off right from the start of the game

I ain’t even mad and he just ruined my chances at my fantasy league.

80 point games are never not stat padding imo. I’m excited for Bam regardless

Give any decent player in the NBA 86 attempts to score points and this “record” would be broken multiple times a season lmao. Pathetic ass shit

Dude dolphins went downhill after that decided not to stat pad that 70-20 game. Should have stat padded

When you play against the Wizards in March you’re supposed to stat pad. What else are you going to do, play real basketball?

It is funny the pick-and-choose that people do with “stat padding”. I’m more of a football guy than basketball so that’s where all my examples are form but times people were mad or disappointed at not stat padding that come to mind:

• Saquon Barkley resting instead of chasing the rushing record at the end of 2024

• Sean Payton giving Taysom Hill a goalline carry that became a touchdown during Alvin Kamara’s 6TD Christmas Day game

• Mike McDaniel not chasing the single game scoring record when already having dropped 70 on the Broncos

Stat padding is essentially successfully doing positive things in a basketball game as a basketball player. Chucking at a low percentage is one thing, but the term stat padding is very overused these days

People are worried about a slippery slope. You don’t want to see fourth quarters turn into hourlong free throw shooting contests.

How is it erased he’s just 3rd now

No 70+ point game is erased

made and attempted

Huh?

Are we just pretending none of wilts teammates scored a single point?

That’s why its so difficult. Unless you are on some crazy shooting shit, where you are making all sorts of 3s even when you are getting doubled and tripled, you are gonna have to statpad shamelessly otherwise the other team is not gonna let you do it. Everything has to align in impossible ways, you gotta shoot like crazy, gotta either have a close game somehow or stay in up 20-30, statpad like this because your opponent is not trying to win, they are leaving 4 other guys open so you pass and they foul them.

Stole? Lmao, get some fresh air.