Another game, another loss. The Washington Wizards lost to the Miami Heat, 150-129 on Tuesday night.
Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo scored a franchise-record 83 points, shooting 20-of-43 from the field and making 36-of-43 free throws tonight. He even made 7-of-22 three pointers. Adebayo, by scoring 83 points has the NBA’s second highest scoring game in history, only behind Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 point game in 1962 for the Philadelphia (now Golden State) Warriors. Adebayo scored 31 of those points in the first
quarter, and scored 21 more in the fourth quarter, though 14 of those points were from the free throw line.
For Washington, let’s forget about the 83 point game by Adebayo. The thing that did the Wizards in was the turnovers and points off them. Washington committed 24 turnovers which turned into 31 Miami points. The Heat committed 17 turnovers themselves, but the Wizards only scored … 9 points off them.
Alex Sarr led the Wizards with 28 points with Will Riley adding 22 more. Jaden Hardy added 17 more points off the bench.
The Wizards’ next game is on Thursday when they travel on the road to play the Orlando Magic. Tip off is at 7 p.m. ET. See you then.
