Brian Windhorst APPLAUDS Erik Spoelstra for comments on Bam Adebayo’s 83-PT game 👏 | Get Up
On Get Up, Brian Windhorst and Monica McNutt react to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander breaking Wilt Chamberlain’s consecutive 20-point game record last night against the Boston Celtics and Erik Spoelstra’s comments on Bam Adebayo’s 83-PT game.
0:00 Reacting to SGA’s record-breaking night
2:20 Did Thursday’s loss bolster the Celtics’ NBA Finals hopes?
4:00 Run The Floor
7:00 Which team will be unexpectedly tough out in the playoffs?
9:10 Windy on Erik Spoelstra’s comments on Bam Adebayo’s 83-PT game
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The Celtics aren’t formidable… yes they got that chip but last year let’s not forget they were losing to the Knicks before Tatum got hurt. And they let the lower seeded Heat beat them in the ECF too.
The nba always been rigged, bam 83 just adds to the circus
If SGA supposed to be the best player in the NBA, why wasn’t he guarding Brown . They had Dort guarding him., go ahead up!! Brown was guarding SGA from the start
I would love to see the clippers owner face rn
Bam's 83: I think people forget how bad the Raptors were that year for Kobe's 82. Stop hatin
bam’s 83 pts was a sham. it took kobe’s 81 to win the game, it happened naturally to the flow of the game. the heat are a disgrace and they’re delusional that they think it carries the same weight. yeah they cheated
And 15 of those 20ppg are from the freethrow line. Dude averages 15 fteethrows a game. Trash.
W Spoel 🔥🔥🔥🎯
Shai is the best nba player of all time !! Nobody comes even close
that whole presser from Spo was fire!
Spo always came off as a guy that had more class than that but I guess we were all wrong
Whoever is on board with this needs to be fired!
Tell that dum lady that her opinion is irrelevant what a dum braud
There was some working it to get Bam the record but all of the complaints about Bam's foul shots are ridiculous. He only gets foul shots if he gets fouled. That's neither Bam nor his team's fault.
You need to watch the Kobe game and the Bam game. I saw them both. They're both games where a player put on a spectacular performance and in both games it was clear, as Kobe's teammates admitted, where the teams pushed to help make that performance a record near the end. They both got to around 70 points or so pretty much on their own. There were lots of people mad at Kobe's performance at the time because they thought it was just lucky because he was often shooting the Laker's into holes they couldn't get out of. People forget he was taking all of the shots in lots of games where he was not hitting and burying the Laker's chances.
I'm not being a Kobe hater, just this is a lot of people with rose coloured glasses looking back on how great Kobe was and forgetting a bit of the reality. I think he was a great player. He was a better offensive player than Bam by far. But does that make Bam's achievement lesser or greater?
The league is so desperate to make Shai the next star for the last couple years its actually kind of sick.
Foh windy
SGA plays like he wants to become the GOAT – he has the Kobe Bryant mindset being that Kobe Bryant was his favorite player – The kid is greatest in the making – we should ALL stay tune.
Spolestra's comments makes me want to buy one of those Bam Adebayo #83 jerseys 😂
Spo and Miami are unprofessional. This was very poorly handled, this was disrespectful to the game. When you are up 30points you don’t chase individual stats at the expense of an inferior opponent. This is not what we teach our kids about how to play sports. Classless behavior from a classless organization.
I could listen to Spo say
"I apologize to absolutely no one"
a thousand times 😊.
Im gonna make that my ringtone…
One dimensional dude. Just a SCORER. Do that being a two way player then we can talk but good scorer.
Spo a great Coach!! Players Coach
i disagree! What about The Joker? And the amount of triple doubles his been pulling up. In my opinion Shai foul baits alot and its not a good look for the league.
Trash d3fends trash, windy, spo, and bam are trash
Players will be going for the scoring record more often now. No more holding back!
Bam used a Zen!!
Sham Adebayo
Always appreciate Brian and Monica's thoughts – high level, clear analysts.
Now I respect SGA's record breaking night…
Funny how Klay Thompson 60 pt game was brought up. Hindsight 20/20. It was a different era. Tanking was not as big an issue as it is now. The Warriors went all-in for their 73rd win on the final day of the season which on the same night… Kobe was let loose for 60 coz it was his final game. No guarantee that K.T. would go for 70 or more if Kerr let him play the 4th quarter. The Pacers would've triple-teamed him. But, what if🤔
There is nothing ethical about the 83 pts and nothing ethical to applauds this.
This is like hey if he can spit saliva on the street and don’t get fine, why can’t punch an old lady in the face and don’t get fine. And a fat man applauding this theory
If I see you score 30 points in a quarter, I'm probably gonna push for you to make history.
Kobe fans yall were the first LeBron fans disgusting and delusional yall the reason people hated him when he played
Love Spo so much
All the sh*t they talk about the lakers and they’re 3rd in the west? 🤣🤣🤣 something ain’t adding up
If you applaud this
You will also applaud a thief stealing money from an old lady cos the thief needs to eat.
Who’s the guy in glasses???
Yes…"Barry Sanders" McNutt always with her great sports insight!! Good job ESPN!!
Windhorst is a windbag. An ESPN windbag
Buried the lead with this one huh?
Brian you're soft AG that's why. Afraid to hurt feelings when the truth needs to be said
Loose some weight windy
Spo being a clown. He admitted that it was BS. 65 OR 72 WOULD HAVE BEEN REMEMBERED FOREVER favorably. The fouling at the end Just stains the NBA has nothing to do with Kobe
Shout out to one of the best coaches in the game…Spoelstra that's my guy, 3 time nba champion coach..!
The NBA has become a fluke, and this will become a normal thing going forward. Shameless stat padding and tanking are the norm now
Sounding confident like this makes him even more delusional. He’s a complete idiot and knows it was unethical. Hypocrite
It's Not Bam's or SPO's Fault it the Wizards being a G League Team in the NBA ( straight Cheeks. )
Windy you also love LeFraud Blames and McDonald's…
So it doesn’t matter than he didn’t play like 15 games the past two years? That’s 15 times he offered 0 points to the game.
Spo did the wrong thing. Fouling to allow bam to shoot more. Its basically cheating to get the 83. 43 free throws. Its ridiculous. The wizards gave him 83. This guy didn't earn 83. They were given. Period. Trash player getting 80 is unheard of. And bam is a guy who career averaged 16ppg. Hes not a scorer. Makes this all but ridiculous. This era is a joke. No defense. Extremely inflated scoring. You got teams purposely bombing the season. The NBA is trash.