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Miami Heat beat Cleveland Cavaliers 133-121 as Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bam Adebayo score 37 each
Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bam Adebayo scored 37 points apiece and Davion Mitchell had a season-high 17 assists as the Heat pulled away in the fourth quarter. Donovan Mitchell scored 25 for Cleveland.
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Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bam Adebayo scored 37 points each, Davion Mitchell had 22 points and a season-high 17 assists, and the Miami Heat beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 133-121 in an Emirates NBA Cup East Group B game at Kaseya Center on Friday, November 13.
Miami won its third game in a row, improved to 6-6, and is 2-0 in Cup group play. Cleveland fell to 6-7 and 1-1 in the Cup. The Cavaliers played without Evan Mobley (toe) and Sam Merrill (elbow), and the Heat were without Klay Thompson (ankle).
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Twelve lead changes
Miami led by as many as eight in the first half, at 19-11 and again at 35-27, but Cleveland answered both times. Tyrese Proctor scored 12 points off the bench in the first quarter, and a 16-4 Cavaliers run in the second ended with Meleek Thomas’ three for a 51-45 lead, Cleveland’s biggest of the night. James Harden’s three just before the buzzer gave the Cavaliers a 57-54 halftime lead.
Antetokounmpo scored 14 in the third quarter, including three straight Miami baskets to make it 84-79. Thomas answered with a fadeaway and a layup to tie it 86-86, and Thomas Bryant’s layup put Cleveland back in front. Andrew Wiggins hit a three from Davion Mitchell’s pass, Bobby Portis was called for a technical foul, and Miami took a 92-91 lead into the fourth.
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Adebayo’s fourth quarter
Adebayo scored 18 of his points in the fourth. He scored Miami’s first 10 points of the quarter on three jumpers, a three-point play and a free throw, and Cleveland managed only a Thomas floater in that stretch. Ryan Conwell’s three made it 105-93, and Davion Mitchell’s three from Adebayo with 6:46 left capped a 16-4 run and gave the Heat their biggest lead at 110-97.
Harden assisted on six straight Cleveland field goals, and Proctor’s three with 4:07 left cut it to 116-108. Donovan Mitchell’s two jumpers got the Cavaliers within 120-114 with 2:07 to go. Davion Mitchell and Antetokounmpo made six free throws over the next 44 seconds, and Adebayo’s pullup with 31.1 seconds left made it 128-115.
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Around the box
Antetokounmpo shot 15-of-20 with 9 rebounds. Adebayo’s 37 points were a season high; he went 13-of-19, made 9 of 10 free throws and had 14 rebounds. Davion Mitchell scored 22 on 7-of-14 shooting and was +22, Conwell added 20 off the bench with four threes, and Wiggins had 8 points and 4 assists. Miami had 37 assists on 46 baskets, made 29 of 37 free throws and outscored Cleveland 56-40 in the paint.
Donovan Mitchell led the Cavaliers with 25 points on 9-of-21 shooting and 5-of-12 from three. Proctor scored 22 off the bench on 7-of-9 shooting, including 5-of-7 from three, Harden had 20 points and 8 assists and made all 8 of his free throws, Jaylon Tyson scored 16, and Thomas added 12. Cleveland made 18 of 47 threes. Attendance was 19,646.
What’s next
Both teams play again on Saturday, November 14. The Cavaliers host the Dallas Mavericks at 7:30 p.m. ET (2:30 a.m. Sunday Cairo time), and the Heat host the Detroit Pistons at 8 p.m. ET (3 a.m. Sunday Cairo time).
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