Butler, Adebayo Lead Heat To 114-99 Victory Over Hornets

MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) –Jimmy Butler scored 32 points, Bam Adebayo had 26 points and 19 rebounds connected the nighttime his Olympic gold-medalist banner was unveiled and the Miami Heat held connected precocious to bushed the Charlotte Hornets 114-99 connected Friday night.

Tyler Herro scored 26 points disconnected the seat for Miami, which wasted astir of a 26-point first-half lead.

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Duncan Robinson added 10 for Miami. The Heat outrebounded Charlotte 60-37.

Gordon Hayward scored 23 points and Miles Bridges had 22 for Charlotte.

Kelly Oubre Jr. scored 17 points and Cody Martin had 15 for the Hornets, portion LaMelo Ball struggled done a 2-for-14 nighttime from the floor.

Miami came into the crippled — successful presumption of points per crippled — with the NBA’s apical defense, Charlotte with the league’s apical offense.

Defense prevailed, with Charlotte shooting conscionable 39%.

The Heat were 19 for 19 from the enactment for the 2nd clip this season.

Miami had gone 19 for 19 oregon amended lone doubly successful its archetypal 33 seasons. It has present done it 2 much times successful a span of 5 days.

Miami was 190-1 implicit the past 25 seasons successful games wherever it led by astatine slightest 26 points.

The lone 26-point pb that was blown by the Heat successful that span was 1 astatine Boston successful a regular-season finale successful April 2016.

The grounds is 191-1 now, though it didn’t travel easily.

Charlotte had 3 chances midway done the 3rd to get the pb down to single-digits and went 0 for 3 connected the possession, with Oubre missing from successful adjacent and Ball misfiring connected 2 abbreviated jumpers.

Butler scored astatine the different extremity to enactment Miami up 13 and aft different stop, Herro made a 3-pointer with 4:07 near successful the play to propulsion the pb backmost to 76-60.

The Hornets were undeterred.

They closed the 3rd connected a 15-8 run, getting the borderline down to 84-75 going into the fourth.

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And they got wrong 88-82 aboriginal successful the fourth, earlier a 7-0 Heat spurt provided Miami with immoderate much-needed cushion.

TIP-INS

Hornets: The Heat near a press-row seat, decorated with a bouquet of flowers, unfastened successful representation of longtime Hornets bushed writer Rick Bonnell of the Charlotte Observer.

Bonnell died successful June. … In nary surprise, the Hornets exercised their third-year enactment connected Ball and their fourth-year enactment connected P.J. Washington.

Heat: Robinson has astatine slightest 1 3-pointer successful 53 consecutive games, 4 shy of matching his career-best streak — which is besides the squad record. … DJ Khaled was astatine the game, celebrating his lad Asahd’s 5th birthday. Asahd got serenaded by immoderate successful the assemblage astatine halftime.

FASTEST TO 100

Herro is up to 110 points successful the season’s archetypal 5 games.

He is the archetypal Heat subordinate to people astatine slightest 100 disconnected the seat truthful rapidly into a season; Goran Dragic (2019-20) and Tyler Johnson (2016-17) some got determination successful the seventh crippled of a season.

DOWN DOUBLES, AGAIN

Charlotte, contempt its 4-2 start, hasn’t made matters peculiarly casual connected itself successful the archetypal six games.

The Hornets person trailed by treble digits successful each crippled this season, the 26-point shortage against Miami connected Friday being the largest.

They’ve flooded deficits of 23 (vs. Indiana), 12 (vs. Orlando), 11 (vs. Cleveland), and 10 (vs. Brooklyn) to triumph already this season.

UP NEXT

Hornets: Host Portland connected Sunday.

Heat: Visit Memphis connected Saturday.

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