Letters To Sports: Bam Adebayo's 83-point Game Needs Asterisk

Times columnist Mirjam Swanson is right. Bam Adebayo is an impostor. If ever location was justification for an asterisk adjacent to a record, his illegitimate battle connected a scoring grounds is it. It was contrived and shameful.

Ron Yukelson
San Luis Obispo

Agree pinch Times columnist Mirjam Swanson, Bam Adebayo’s a fraud! It was a full setup erstwhile he sewage adjacent to Kobe’s record-setting 81 points. Both teams … nan Heat and nan Wizards … conspired pinch their flopping and intentional fouling to get him to 83. Is this what nan NBA has sunk to? Shame, shame.

Marty Zweben
Palos Verdes Estates

Bam Adebayo’s 83-point game, while impressive, appeared to beryllium a sloppy matter comparable to an All-Star crippled afloat of dunks and threes. His field-goal percent was nether 50%. He changeable 43 free throws. which was somewhat of an NBA disgrace. Kobe’s 81 took spot successful a crippled that was adjacent astir of nan way, meant getting into a playoff spot, and demonstrated Kobe’s artistry successful a majestic show of nan full violative arsenal he worked truthful difficult to perfect. He was a maestro and savant. I consciousness for illustration he has been soiled.

Dell Franklin
Cayucos

There has already been overmuch complaining astir Bam Adebayo’s 83-point game, complaining that his teammates fed him nan shot hoping that he would surpass Kobe’s single-game full of 81. Those of america of a definite property cognize that nan nonstop aforesaid point happened erstwhile Wilt scored 100 successful 1962. Perhaps nan point to do is not to look to diminish this effort, but to admit it for nan accomplishment it is. Congratulations to Bam.

Ronald O. Richards
Los Angeles