Adebayo Scores 24 As Heat Pull Away To Beat Nets 106-93

MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) – Bam Adebayo scored 24 points and grabbed 9 rebounds to pb the Miami Heat to a 106-93 triumph implicit the Brooklyn Nets connected Wednesday night.

Jimmy Butler added 17 points for Miami (3-1). P.J. Tucker finished with 15, and Tyler Herro and Dewayne Dedmon each contributed 14.

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A preseason favourite to triumph the NBA championship, Brooklyn has alternated losses and wins done the archetypal 5 games of the play and dropped to 2-3.

Kevin Durant finished with 25 points and 11 rebounds.

Joe Harris contributed 15 points connected 5-for-15 shooting, including 5 for 11 from the 3-point range.

With his 3rd 3-pointer of the game, Harris passed Jason Kidd arsenic the franchise’s vocation person successful made 3-pointers.

James Harden had 14 points and Bruce Brown chipped successful with 12.

The archetypal of 4 regular-season matchups betwixt the Eastern Conference rivals was a opposition successful styles, the flashy, up-tempo, high-scoring Nets against a carnal Heat squad.

Despite forcing the Nets to play a possession-by-possession crippled for overmuch of the archetypal half, the Heat trailed 51-49 astatine the half.

Miami had outscored Brooklyn successful the overgarment (30-20), had much second-chance points (15-2), and had a decided borderline successful rebounds (35-25).

What the Heat did not have, though, was the tandem of Durant and Harden, who combined for 25 of Brooklyn’s 51 points successful the half.

Durant besides grabbed 8 rebounds portion Harden added 3 boards and 3 assists.

Miami stayed with its attack and it paid dividends successful the 3rd quarter, arsenic the Heat outscored the Nets 32-23 and took an 81-74 pb into the fourth.

The Heat extended their pb to 88-77 earlier Brooklyn utilized a 7-2 spurt to chopped the shortage to 90-84.

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Following a timeout, Durant stared down Butler arsenic helium drilled a 3 to bring Brooklyn with three.

That was arsenic adjacent arsenic the Nets would come, arsenic Miami pulled away, with Adebayo throwing down 2 thunderous dunks.

For the game, Miami outscored Brooklyn 48-34 successful the paint, had 27 much second-chance points (31-4), and outrebounded the Nets 62-42.

TIP-INS

Heat: Entering Wednesday, the Heat were limiting opponents to 27% connected 3-point attempts but were besides yielding 41 attempts from down the arc per game.

“It was akin past year,” manager Erik Spoelstra said.

“I’ll beryllium honest, we haven’t wholly wrapped our caput astir it. We’re moving connected it. I don’t emotion giving up that galore 3s (but) you can’t instrumentality distant everything. This crippled is antithetic than it was five, six, 7 years ago. And we’re inactive trying to fig it out.”

Nets: Through 4 games, Durant was averaging 31 points and had 23 assists (5.75 per game). “I deliberation Kevin has taken connected much of a enactment relation with the shot successful his hands,” manager Steve Nash said earlier the game.

“He’s recovered a bully equilibrium betwixt inactive starring america successful scoring and besides facilitating; looking for his teammates. For specified a gifted, historical scorer, helium truly is an unselfish player. I deliberation inside—in his mind, successful his heart—he’d beryllium rather blessed to walk the shot each nighttime if it was successful. I deliberation helium shoots much I deliberation erstwhile helium needs (to). “

UP NEXT:

Heat: Hosts Charlotte Friday night.

Nets: Continues six-game homestead by hosting Indiana Friday night.

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