{"id":487875,"date":"2026-03-13T07:50:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T06:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=487875"},"modified":"2026-03-13T07:50:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T06:50:03","slug":"spoelstra-backs-adebayos-83-point-night-i-apologize-to-absolutely-no-one-you-have-to-go-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/spoelstra-backs-adebayos-83-point-night-i-apologize-to-absolutely-no-one-you-have-to-go-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoelstra backs Adebayo\u2019s 83-point night: \u201cI apologize to absolutely no one\u2026 you have to go for it\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1504\" data-end=\"1909\">Adebayo\u2019s 83 in the Heat\u2019s 150-129 win over the <strong data-start=\"1552\" data-end=\"1574\">Washington Wizards<\/strong> is now the <strong data-start=\"1586\" data-end=\"1595\">No. 2<\/strong> single-game total in NBA history: 17 shy of <strong data-start=\"1640\" data-end=\"1662\">Wilt Chamberlain\u2019s<\/strong> 100 and two ahead of <strong data-start=\"1684\" data-end=\"1701\">Kobe Bryant\u2019s<\/strong> 81.<br data-start=\"1705\" data-end=\"1708\" \/>Miami kept feeding him late, even as Washington sent multiple defenders, and intentionally fouled to get extra possessions: \u201cWhen there\u2019s a moment like that\u2026 <strong data-start=\"1866\" data-end=\"1891\">you have to go for it<\/strong>,\u201d Spoelstra said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1911\" data-end=\"2200\">Adebayo agreed: \u201cI\u2019ve got 70 with nine minutes left\u2026 you think I\u2019m not going for it? \u2026 If you are mad, <strong data-start=\"2014\" data-end=\"2030\">I don\u2019t care<\/strong>.\u201d<br data-start=\"2032\" data-end=\"2035\" \/>He followed it with 21 points in a 112-105 win over the <strong data-start=\"2091\" data-end=\"2110\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/strong>, Miami\u2019s seventh straight, saying the quick turnaround was \u201can emotional roller coaster.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Bam Adebayo\u2019s 83-point explosion, Erik Spoelstra addressed criticism about Miami extending the final minutes to create more scoring chances<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-487875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Miami-Heay.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487875"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=487875"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=487875"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=487875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}