{"id":272720,"date":"2025-11-09T06:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272720\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T06:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:59:07","slug":"heat-136-131-trail-blazers-9-nov-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272720\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat 136-131 Trail Blazers (9 Nov, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI — \u2014 Nikola Jovic<\/a> scored a career-high 29 points off the bench and finished with nine rebounds and seven assists as the Miami Heat<\/a> edged the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> 136-131 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Norman Powell<\/a> scored 22 points for Miami, which got 16 points from Pelle Larsson<\/a>, 15 from Andrew Wiggins<\/a> and a 14-point, 12-rebound, seven-assist effort from Jaime Jaquez Jr<\/a>. Kel\u2019el Ware added 12 rebounds for the Heat.<\/p>\n

Jovic’s previous career-best was 24 points.<\/p>\n

Deni Avdija<\/a> \u2014 now averaging 25.3 points so far this season \u2014 scored 33 points for Portland, which was playing the first game of a five-game trip. The Trail Blazers got 21 points from Shaedon Sharpe<\/a>, plus 18 apiece from Jrue Holiday<\/a> and Jerami Grant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It came down to a back-and-forth fourth quarter, one in which neither team led by more than four until the final moments. Holiday connected on a 3-pointer with 3:26 left to tie the game at 123-all, setting the stage for the finish.<\/p>\n

Wiggins’ 3-pointer with 1:32 left gave Miami a 132-127 lead and the Heat held on from there, improving to 4-0 at home this season. Miami also moved to 6-2 when it scores at least 115 points; the Heat are 0-2 when scoring less than 115.<\/p>\n

The Heat, who set a franchise record with 53 first-quarter points on Friday, had an icy cold start on Saturday \u2014 missing 14 of their first 15 shots and getting into a quick 15-3 deficit.<\/p>\n

They didn’t stay cold for long. The Heat managed 69 points in the final 19 minutes of the first half, taking a 72-65 lead into the break.<\/p>\n

Miami played its second straight game without starting center Bam Adebayo<\/a>, sidelined by a sprained left big toe.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Trail Blazers: Visit Orlando on Monday.<\/p>\n

Heat: Host Cleveland on Monday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI — \u2014 Nikola Jovic scored a career-high 29 points off the bench and finished with nine rebounds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-272720","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\/272720","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=272720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}