NBA Season 2025-26

[Roy H.]

The best thing to come out of that is Bam passing Kobe's 81 (which we've heard about incessantly over the years) and also breaking Lebron's Heat franchise record.

Kobe is an all time great player. What bam just did with 43 FT attempts to break his record is shameful. The guy doesn?t even average 19pts a game. Bad look for the league.

None of what Wilt, Bam, or Kobe did was exactly honorable for the game of basketball.  It's selfish basketball to begin with.  Kobe took over 75% of his team's shots in the 4th quarter of his 81 point game and ALL of the Lakers' 4th Q FTs.

One of the biggest farces was the 60 point game had in his final career game.

David Robinson's 70+ to win the scoring title was silly, too.

[Donoghus]

The best thing to come out of that is Bam passing Kobe's 81 (which we've heard about incessantly over the years) and also breaking Lebron's Heat franchise record.

Kobe is an all time great player. What bam just did with 43 FT attempts to break his record is shameful. The guy doesn?t even average 19pts a game. Bad look for the league.

None of what Wilt, Bam, or Kobe did was exactly honorable for the game of basketball.  It's selfish basketball to begin with.  Kobe took over 75% of his team's shots in the 4th quarter of his 81 point game and ALL of the Lakers' 4th Q FTs.

One of the biggest farces was the 60 point game had in his final career game.

David Robinson's 70+ to win the scoring title was silly, too.

I was looking at David Thompson's 73 point game from '78 earlier.  He was in a scoring title battle with Gervin similar to the whole Admiral/Shaq one.  His stat line was pretty impressive all things considered.

28/38 .737 FG% and shot 17/20 from FT line  (85%) and no 3 point line either

[Birdman]

Everyone hating on Bam for some reason but I?m blaming Washington to let him go off like this and all the free throws..congrats to bam

[86MaxwellSmart]

I can't believe they took him out with just over a minute to go....gotta go for it when you can.

[Moranis]

Wilt's 100 came in a game the Warriors scored 169 and won by 22.  3 Knicks scored over 30 in the game. Wilt was 28 of 32 from the line, which far exceeded his normal percentage.  The 3 games prior Wilt scored 67, 65, and 61 (and 58 the game after). He was just on a heater for that week and the Knicks were a poor matchup. 

[Donoghus]

Wilt's 100 came in a game the Warriors scored 169 and won by 22.  3 Knicks scored over 30 in the game. Wilt was 28 of 32 from the line, which far exceeded his normal percentage.  The 3 games prior Wilt scored 67, 65, and 61 (and 58 the game after). He was just on a heater for that week and the Knicks were a poor matchup.

That game was also a farce towards the end.  Each team intentionally fouling and the Knicks stalling their offense in a game they were trailing. 

[bdm860]

Wilt's 100 came in a game the Warriors scored 169 and won by 22.  3 Knicks scored over 30 in the game. Wilt was 28 of 32 from the line, which far exceeded his normal percentage.  The 3 games prior Wilt scored 67, 65, and 61 (and 58 the game after). He was just on a heater for that week and the Knicks were a poor matchup.

To add to Wilt's game, New York was also missing their starting center (Phil Jordan), leaving them with only 2 players taller than 6'6": one was 6'9" 210lbs (rookie Cleveland Buckner) and the other was 6'10" 220lbs (Darrall Imhoff). Imoff fouled out in 20 minutes, leaving only Buckner to guard Wilt most of the game.

In that 67 point game three games prior (which was also against the Knicks), Wilt supposedly put up a 28 point quarter when he was being guarded by Buckner. So Buckner being essentially the only player available to guard Wilt, that really was the perfect situation for Wilt.

[bdm860]

Before Bam, how many people were upset with teams like the Wizards for their tank jobs?

Personally, I love it, I think Bam might have just solved tanking. Throw a crap team on the floor, let the opposing team's star feast. Maybe tanking teams will think twice about some of the lineups they decide to roll out.

Ok probably not, but I do see it as more of poetic justice for this to happen against a tanking team, rather than something dishonorable. I think it would be kind of cool if every star went out and tried to set records against the Jazz/Kings/Wizards/Nets (that us until someone blows out their knee chasing a record in the 4Q of a blowout).

That being said, I'm still bitter about what Booker did against the C's.

[Who]

Q3 ....

Bam isos right wing on Sarr, spins, pump fakes, more pump fakes, hey Sarr is learning! Stays on his feet, forces a tough fadeaway, miss. 6min mark. Sarr comes out. I wonder if he is done for the night. MIA up 95-75.

Vukcevic back on Bam. Immediately loses Bam on a drive as Vuke can't help and recover properly. Bam fouled on drive to the basket by Coulibaly. This must be when his parade to the FT line begins. 12-14 FTA at this point. Hits both. 50pts. Bam leaks out in transition, pass ahead, dunk. 52pts. Timeout. Tech foul. Bam shoots it. 53pts.

So that was midway through Q3. Bam had only 12-14 FTA when Alex Sarr went out of the game. Bam finished the game 36-43 FTA so he went 24-29 FTA in the final 18min of the game when Sarr was on the bench.

I was curious how many of his 12-14 FTA also came when Sarr was on the bench in the 1st half because I remember Bam getting a lot of joy against Vukcevic in that Q1.

So Sarr checks out around the 5min mark Q1. Man, ESPN's new updated play by play (with more graphics) is much harder to read than the old version. Bam goes 4-5 FTA in final 5min of Q1. Sarr and Bam on bench until 7min mark Q2. Sarr checks out for 1min around 2min mark. Bam gets two more FTs 2-2. Sarr back in. So 6-7 FTA of his 12-14 FTA came when Sarr was out of the game.


Okay, so overall, Bam went:

6-7 FTA with Alex Sarr on the floor = 20min
30-36 FTA with Alex Sarr on the bench = 22min


Sarr and Bam were on the floor for 20min together. Bam had another 22min beating up on Vukcevic (too slow), Anthony Gill (too small, too slow), and Coulibaly late in Q4 (too small). That is when he got his parade to the FT line. None of those guys could cover him one-on-one and Washington refused to double Bam until late in the game allowing him to beat the crap out of those guys.

That was what I was seeing in the game. Sarr was the only guy on the Wizards roster who could cover Bam one-on-one. That had nobody else on the team who could matchup with Bam. And it was not like Sarr was playing good D on Bam. He was awful. But he was still far better than Vukcevic (snail level speed) or Anthony Gill (I said he reminded me of a high school team playing against an NBA big man prospect and all you got is your chunky 6-6/6-7 guy who can't jump or run to matchup against the NBA prospect).

[Goldstar88]

Kobe only had 26 points at halftime and the Raptors were winning 63-49.  Kobe had 27 of the Lakers 42 in the 3rd, Toronto only scored 22 and was down 5 entering the 4th. Kobe scored 28 of the Lakers 31 and the Raptors had 19 in the 4th.  The Raptors just gave up and Kobe went into full bore shooting every time down to get to 81.  The 2nd half of that game was all about Kobe passing Wilt's 78.  It was terrible basketball overall.

That is all true, but what the Heat did with Bam last night was bush league on a different level. It was disgusting.

The part that annoyed me most (and this also happened when Devin Booker put up 70 against us a few years ago) was that the Heat kept fouling the Wizards in a 20+ point game to get Bam more possessions.  That is not basketball.

Exactly. It became a show. Like the Globetrotters.