Adebayo scored 83 points in a win over the Washington Wizards, passing Kobe Bryant’s 81 points in 2006 against the Toronto Raptors for the second-highest single-game total in league history. Adebayo’s mark trails only the 100 points that Wilt Chamberlain scored in 1962.

Adebayo also set multiple team records with his career-best performance, which included breaking the Heat single-game record of 61 set by LeBron James on March 3, 2014, in just three quarters.

The NBA’s previous best this season was 56, by Nikola Jokic for Denver against Minnesota on Christmas night. The last player to have 62 points through three quarters: one of Adebayo’s basketball heroes, Bryant, who had exactly that many through three quarters for the Los Angeles Lakers against Dallas on Dec. 20, 2005.

And Adebayo only needed the first half to set a career high, too.

Adebayo scored 31 points in the opening quarter against the Wizards, breaking the Heat record for points in any quarter — and tying the team record for points in a first half before the second quarter even started.

He finished the first half with 43 points, a team record for any half and two points better than his previous career high — for a full game, that is — of 41, set Jan. 23, 2021, against Brooklyn.