{"id":433739,"date":"2026-01-26T05:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/433739\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T05:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:44:07","slug":"miami-heat-beat-short-handed-phoenix-suns-in-short-turnaround-behind-adebayos-22-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/433739\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Heat beat short-handed Phoenix Suns in short turnaround behind Adebayo’s 22 points"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Bam Adebayo<\/a> scored 22 points, Jaime Jaquez Jr.<\/a> added 20 and the Miami Heat<\/a> beat the short-handed Phoenix Suns<\/a> 111-102 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

The Heat had a short turnaround after blowing out Utah 147-116 on Saturday night, but took advantage of Phoenix playing without two key players who suffered injuries in Friday night in a 110-103 loss at Atlanta.<\/p>\n

Devin Booker<\/a>, a four-time All-Star, rolled his right ankle in third quarter against the Hawks and will be re-evaluated in a week. Jalen Green<\/a> came out after feeling pain in his second game back after missing 33 with a hamstring strain.<\/p>\n

The Suns labored without Booker\u2019s team-leading 25.4 points per game, shooting 37% and 7 of 35 from 3. Dillon Brooks<\/a> led Phoenix with 26 points and Grayson Allen<\/a> added 18 despite shooting 4 of 18 from the floor, including 1 of 11 from 3.<\/p>\n

The NBA\u2019s fourth-highest scoring team, Miami led by five after three quarters and pushed it to 101-83 midway through the fourth on their way to finishing a five-game trip 3-2. Norman Powell<\/a> added 16 points and 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Miami took advantage of several Phoenix defensive breakdowns in the first quarter, using a 16-2 run to build a 12-point lead. <\/p>\n

The Suns briefly clawed their way into the lead as both teams struggled shooting in the second quarter, but the Heat used a short run to lead 58-48 at halftime.<\/p>\n

Miami shot 3 of 17 from 3 in the first half and the Suns were even worse, going 2 for 19.<\/p>\n

The third quarter played out similar to the second: the Suns fought back, the Heat went on a late run. Isaiah Livers<\/a> hit a 3-pointer just inside the midcourt line at the buzzer to pull Phoenix to 82-77 heading to the fourth.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Heat: Host Orlando on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Suns: Host Brooklyn on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/nba<\/p>\n

John Marshall, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Bam Adebayo scored 22 points, Jaime Jaquez Jr. added 20 and the Miami Heat beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-433739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}