NBA 2K26 Drops Free 99 OVR Dark Matter Bam Adebayo Card for Historic 83-Point Game

After Bam Adebayo scored 83 points against the Washington Wizards on Tuesday night, Visual Concepts and 2K Sports moved fast. Within days, NBA 2K26 dropped a rapid-response locker code granting every MyTEAM player a free 99 OVR Dark Matter Fresh Bam Adebayo card with zero conditions: enter BAM-83-POINTS and the card is yours immediately, no auction house grind, no pack luck required.

The redemption process runs through the MyTEAM menu. From the main screen, navigate to MyTEAM, scroll the top bar to the Market tab, select Locker Codes, and use the onscreen keyboard to type the code. One small caution worth heeding: a single input error resets the entire entry, so type carefully.

The free Dark Matter card is only half the offer. A follow-on challenge tasks players with using any Bam Adebayo card and dropping 83 points across multiple MyTEAM modes to unlock a second Bam OVR card. The challenge is worth completing before the NBA regular season ends, so the clock is ticking.

The reason 2K responded this quickly is written in the box score. Adebayo finished the game against Washington shooting 20-of-43 from the field, 7-of-22 from three, and a record-breaking 36-of-43 from the free-throw line. That adds up to 83 points, the second-highest single-game total in NBA history, trailing only Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point performance in 1962. In the process, Adebayo passed Kobe Bryant's 81-point game, a number that had stood as the gold standard for individual scoring explosions for two decades. "It was, to put it mildly, a night for the history books," as GameDaily framed it on March 11, the day the story broke.

For context on where this Bam card fits in the broader NBA 2K26 locker code landscape: GamesRadar noted that the four codes dropped during launch week already felt more generous than the full run of NBA 2K25 locker codes ever got. Other active rewards have included a Game Changers option pack, though that list shifts as codes expire. Both GamesRadar and GameDaily maintain updated trackers that reflect what is still redeemable versus what has already lapsed, which is worth bookmarking given that the expiration date on BAM-83-POINTS has not been officially confirmed. Platform limitations similarly remain unspecified, so redeeming sooner rather than later is the safer play.