Basketball has always celebrated greatness. Historic scoring performances are supposed to represent moments when a player drags his team through adversity, pushes the limits of human performance, and earns a place in the game’s history through competition and necessity. That is why the supposed 83-point explosion from Bam Adebayo in a dominant Miami Heat victory should not be celebrated the same way other historic scoring nights are remembered. It should come with an asterisk. The Heat led the entire game. The outcome was effectively decided by the third quarter. Yet Adebayo continued to play…
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