WNBA player A'ja Wilson and Bam Adebayo #13 of the Miami Heat embrace after a 150-129 win over the Washington Wizards at Kaseya Center on March 10, 2026 in Miami. Megan Briggs Getty Images
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That lyric in Kendrick Lamar’s “Peekaboo” that says “80 pointers like a Kobe game,” feels appropriate after the Miami Heat’s Bam Adebayo broke Mamba’s record for the second-most scored points in a game on Tuesday night against the Washington Wizards.
Adebayo, who celebrated his 83-point game alongside girlfriend and basketball royalty A’ja Wilson, follows the late Kobe Bryant and Wilt Chamberlain in becoming the only players to score more than 80 points in a single game (Chamberlain is the record holder with 100; Bryant scored 81 and had a firm hold on second place for 20 years).
Tuesday’s game continues a record-breaking week for the Heat center and power forward, who joined Dwayne Wade as the only two Miami Heat players to score 10,000 points. Personally, I’m hoping this momentum keeps up through Saturday, when I finally make it to a Heat game this year.
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Heat’s Adebayo celebrates 83-point night alongside WNBA icon Wilson: ’I’m thankful to have her’
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INSIDE THE 305:
Tracie Boyd posed by the grave of Blanche and Joseph Ely, who were a couple of African American educators pioneers in Broward County, at the Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, that she have been restoring and keeping it clean after she discovered it while visiting her grandparents' grave since September 2025 after seeing their grave in disarray, on Thursday, March 05, 2026. Pedro Portal pportal@miamiherald.com
Tracie Boyd found pioneering Black Broward County educators Blanche and Joseph Ely’s grave in disarray. She decided to fix it up.
Former Florida International University professor and historian Marvin Dunn speaks to attendees about the Rosewood Massacre during a “Black History Learning Tree” event at FIU on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Miami, Fla. D.A. Varela dvarela@miamiherald.com
Historian, activist and former professor Marvin Dunn has spent decades teaching Florida’s Black history. Now, he’s put that information in a textbook.
OUTSIDE THE 305:
A Cuban doctor arrives at Ramon Villeda Morales airport in San Pedro Sula, Honduras on March 5, 2026. Some 128 Cuban doctors left Honduras after the agreement under which they had been operating for the past two years was not renewed by the government of conservative President Nasry Asfura, aligning itself with US plans to reduce the flow of foreign currency to Cuba, whose main source of income is the deployment of medical brigades abroad. (Photo by Orlando SIERRA / AFP via Getty Images) ORLANDO SIERRA AFP via Getty Images
After 50 years of providing medical care to Guyana and Jamaica nationals, Cuba is withdrawing its doctors and other health specialists that have been a cornerstone of Caribbean healthcare.
People attend a candlelight vigil for Haitians living in the US under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) immigration program in Miami, Florida on February 3, 2026. Late on February 2, federal judge Ana C. Reyes of the Federal District Court in Washington, blocked the Trump administration from ending TPS for an estimated 350,000 Haitian immigrants. The status, which offers protection from deportation and work authorization, was set to expire on Feb. 3. (Photo by Giorgio Viera / AFP via Getty Images) GIORGIO VIERA AFP via Getty Images
The request to the Supreme Court comes after two lower courts refused to allow the Trump administration to end Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status designation, which was set to end on Feb. 3.
HIGH CULTURE:
Clarence “C.T.” Taylor, the first Black reporter on air in South Florida, died Monday, his family announced. This is a still image from NBC 6 South Florida. NBC 6 South Florida
Clarence “C.T.” Taylor, the first Black reporter on air in South Florida died Monday, his family announced. He was 83. WTVJ (NBC 6 South Florida) hired Taylor in 1968 as a reporter. He would later serve as longtime program director for Atlanta-based Gospel radio station WYZE Radio.