{"id":270910,"date":"2025-11-08T11:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/270910\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:22:10","slug":"heat-set-franchise-record-with-53-point-1st-quarter-hammer-hornets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/270910\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat set franchise record with 53-point 1st quarter, hammer Hornets"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI — Norman Powell<\/a> scored 25 points, and the Miami Heat<\/a> enjoyed a record-setting first quarter on the way to a 126-108 victory<\/a> over the Charlotte Hornets<\/a> in an NBA Cup game Friday night, giving coach Erik Spoelstra a win a day after his home burned down<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Miami scored a franchise-record 53 points in the first quarter — the second-highest-scoring first quarter in NBA history — and led 64-38 with 9:20 left in the second quarter.<\/p>\n

Barely seven minutes later, it was 66-65 after Charlotte went on a 27-2 run. But the Hornets never led, and the Heat pulled away in the fourth.<\/p>\n

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The Heat managed only 19 points in the second quarter. They became the second team in the NBA’s shot-clock era, which started in 1954, to score at least 50 in one quarter and then fail to score 20 in the next quarter of the same regular-season game. Memphis also did it March 5, 2023, in a loss to the LA Clippers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The previous Heat record for points in a quarter was 48, in the fourth quarter against New York on March 2, 1989. The previous first-quarter Heat record was 47 at Washington on Jan. 9, 2021.<\/p>\n

The 53-point outburst tied for the ninth-highest-scoring quarter in the NBA’s shot-clock era, including playoff games.<\/p>\n

The NBA record for most points in a first quarter is held by Golden State, which scored 55<\/a> in the first 12 minutes against Portland on April 9, 2023.<\/p>\n

Andrew Wiggins<\/a> scored 22 points, and Pelle Larsson<\/a> added 19 for Miami in Friday’s win.<\/p>\n

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI — Norman Powell scored 25 points, and the Miami Heat enjoyed a record-setting first quarter on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-270910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}