{"id":412376,"date":"2026-01-14T13:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/412376\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:26:06","slug":"heat-127-121-suns-14-jan-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/412376\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat 127-121 Suns (14 Jan, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI — \u2014 Bam Adebayo<\/a> scored 29 points, including three long jumpers in the final minutes, and Norman Powell<\/a> added 27 as the Miami Heat<\/a> squandered a 20-point lead before recovering to beat the Phoenix Suns<\/a> 127-121 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Powell hit a 3-pointer with 48 seconds left to put Miami ahead for good, and Andrew Wiggins<\/a> made a pair of free throws to seal the game after Phoenix’s Dillon Brooks<\/a> was called for a flagrant foul with 11.5 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n

Adebayo pushed his career total to 9,461 points \u2014 two more than Alonzo Mourning for No. 2 on Miami’s list, with Dwyane Wade’s 21,556 points the franchise record. Tyler Herro<\/a> scored 23 for Miami, which snapped a three-game slide.<\/p>\n

Brooks and Grayson Allen<\/a> each scored 25 for Phoenix, which had won three straight. Devin Booker<\/a> finished with 24 points, nine rebounds and nine assists for the Suns, while Mark Williams<\/a> added 18 points and 14 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Phoenix was trying to overcome a 20-point deficit for the second time this season; the Suns trailed by 20 to Sacramento on opening night. They’re now 0-11 in games in which they trailed by at least 20 since, but had a chance on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Heat led by 20 after Herro made a 3-pointer on the opening possession of the second half, and the lead was still 17 when Booker was called for an offensive foul with 9:17 left in the third quarter \u2014 a play that the Suns challenged.<\/p>\n

They won the challenge, and the game immediately changed.<\/p>\n

Booker made the two free throws that got awarded instead, starting what became a 13-0 run. A three-point play by Oso Ighodaro<\/a> with 0.1 seconds left in the third tied the game at 92, and a 3-pointer by Collin Gillespie<\/a> with 9:13 left gave the Suns their first lead of the night.<\/p>\n

Phoenix led by as many as six in the final minutes, before Adebayo and Powell sparked the Heat comeback.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Suns: Visit Detroit on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Heat: Host Boston on Thursday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI — \u2014 Bam Adebayo scored 29 points, including three long jumpers in the final minutes, and Norman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-412376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412376","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=412376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}