Heat Win 3rd Straight, Pull Away From Magic 93-83

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MIAMI (AP) — Jimmy Butler returned from a bruised tailbone to people 17 points and drawback 11 rebounds, Caleb Martin added 17 much points and the Miami Heat bushed the Orlando Magic 93-83 connected Sunday.

Omer Yurtseven, making his archetypal vocation commencement astatine halfway for Miami, finished with 16 points and 15 rebounds successful the Heat’s 3rd consecutive victory. Gabe Vincent and Max Strus each had 13 points for Miami.

Butler had missed 12 of Miami’s past 13 games due to the fact that of the injury. Martin had missed Miami’s past 7 games due to the fact that of a stint successful the NBA’s wellness and information protocols.

Gary Harris scored 20 for Orlando, which got 14 from RJ Hampton, 13 from Franz Wagner and 12 from Hassani Gravett.

Hampton’s 3-pointer with 4:42 near successful the archetypal gave Orlando a 21-12 lead, the biggest Magic cushion of the afternoon. Miami answered with a 12-3 tally capped by a layup from Udonis Haslem to propulsion into a tie, past took its archetypal pb with 7:29 near successful the fractional connected a brace of escaped throws from Butler.

The Heat borderline was lone 42-39 astatine the half. But Miami scored the archetypal 10 points of the 2nd fractional — getting 4 baskets from 4 antithetic players, Strus, Yurtseven, Duncan Robinson and Vincent — to propulsion the pb retired to 13.

Orlando wouldn’t spell away. Hampton’s 3-pointer with 6:03 near got the Magic wrong 80-72, but Miami scored the adjacent 8 and sealed the triumph erstwhile Strus deed a 3 with 3:14 near for an 88-72 edge.

TIP-INS

Magic: Orlando fell to 7-27, tying the worst 34-game commencement successful franchise history. It besides happened successful 1991-92. … The Magic are present 0-3 against Miami this season.

Heat: Kyle Lowry (protocols) remained sidelined, and Miami was without adjunct coaches Chris Quinn and Caron Butler for virus-related reasons. … Haslem has played successful 3 consecutive games for the archetypal clip since making 4 consecutive appearances successful December 2017.

LOTS OF STARTERS

Yurtseven — called upon due to the fact that Heat centers Bam Adebayo (out until January, thumb) and Dewayne Dedmon (out 1-2 weeks, knee) are sidelined — was conscionable portion of much unsocial lineups for some sides. The 3 Heat-Magic games this play person seen 19 antithetic players successful the starting lineups, already the astir successful immoderate play bid betwixt the Florida teams since 21 players opened Miami-Orlando games during 2002-03.

HERRO EJECTED

Heat defender Tyler Herro was ejected precocious successful the 3rd 4th aft picking up his 2nd method foul of the game. He besides received 1 midway done the 2nd quarter, a treble method on with Hampton.

UP NEXT

Magic: Host Milwaukee connected Tuesday, the commencement of a two-game homestand against the reigning champions.

Heat: Host Washington connected Tuesday, the extremity of Miami’s archetypal four-game homestand truthful acold this season.

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