It’s obviously less than scientific to take this approach and make past point totals the ultimate standard for probability in this case … but I found it somewhat stunning that nearly 100 players in today’s NBA had posted a gaudier career night than Adebayo before Tuesday’s South Beach proceedings. You can see for yourself by scrolling through the whole Keerthika-assembled list below. We stretched it to 107 players in the end to include the nine other active players who have scored 41 in a regular-season game to match Adebayo’s previous best. It’s a group that now includes Chicago’s Matas Buzelis, who was rumbling for 41 points of his own in an overtime win over Golden State on the same night that Bam somehow found a way to get us talking about Kobe, Wilt Chamberlain, tanking, ethical basketball and asterisks all at the same time.
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