LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Lakers earned their second consecutive win against one of the better teams in the NBA after a 120-106 win against the Minnesota Timberwolves, but the talk of the night was Bam Adebayo's 83-point masterclass during the Miami Heat's win against the Washington Wizards. Lakers head coach JJ Redick tuned into the Heat game to watch the final minutes of Adebayo's night.
After the Lakers' win against the Timberwolves, JJ Redick admitted that he initially didn't know what was going on, and once he realized, he described what he felt after watching Bam Adebayo drop 83 points.
"It's incredible what he was able to do. I went in and I looked at the score, and he [Bam] Was on the free-throw line, and I looked at the score, and they've been playing great basketball lately," Redick recalled. "I told my coaching staff, 'Oh, they're on a roll.' They all looked at each other and said, 'Are you kidding right now?'
"And I say, 'No, what's going on?'...They say, 'Bam has 77.' And then I watched the last three minutes, and it was a different type of basketball.
There's no doubt Redick was referring to the final moments when it became clear the Heat were trying to bring in Adebayo to surpass former Lakers star Kobe Bryant's 81-point performance. This included some intentional fouls by the Heat to gain extra possession to extend the game and get the ball back into Adebayo's hands.
But at the end of the day, Adebayo's name went down in NBA history with the second-highest individual scoring performance behind Wilt Chamberlain's 100 points.
