{"id":497977,"date":"2026-02-25T06:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/497977\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T06:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:22:08","slug":"kevin-porter-jr-bobby-portis-and-ryan-rollins-power-milwaukee-bucks-to-win-over-miami-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/497977\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Porter Jr., Bobby Portis and Ryan Rollins power Milwaukee Bucks to win over Miami Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Kevin Porter Jr.<\/a> matched his season high with 32 points and Bobby Portis<\/a> and Ryan Rollins<\/a> scored 21 apiece as the Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> beat the Miami Heat<\/a> 128-117 on Tuesday night for their fourth win in five games.<\/p>\n

Kyle Kuzma<\/a> added 19 points and Ousmane Dieng<\/a> 11 for the Bucks.<\/p>\n

Norman Powell<\/a> scored 26 points, Bam Adebayo<\/a> finished with 18 points and nine rebounds and Andrew Wiggins<\/a> had 16 points for the Heat, who had their three-game winning streak halted.<\/p>\n

Tyler Herro<\/a> and Kel\u2019el Ware each scored 14 points and Pelle Larsson<\/a> 10 for Miami. Davion Mitchell<\/a>, who returned after missing a game due to illness, added eight points and eight assists.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee held a 63-58 advantage at the half before the teams exchanged leads in the third. Miami held a 93-89 advantage heading into the final period.<\/p>\n

Ware\u2019s 3-pointer early in the fourth gave Miami a nine-point lead, its largest to that point. The Bucks battled back, quickly cutting their deficit to 102-100 on a 3-pointer by Portis before Milwaukee moved ahead 103-102 when Dieng hit from long distance.<\/p>\n

The back-and-forth battle continued throughout the quarter with Milwaukee taking a 118-116 lead when Porter sank a 3-pointer from the corner while drawing a foul and sinking the free throw. Back-to-back baskets by Rollins with a just over one minute remaining sealed the victory.<\/p>\n

The Bucks led 30-29 after one quarter, paced by Kuzman\u2019s 13 points.<\/p>\n

Miami scored 16 points off 11 Bucks turnovers, and Milwaukee managed just 11 points on 16 Heat turnovers.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee\u2019s Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> missed his 12th consecutive game since straining his right calf on Jan. 23. The Bucks are 15-15 with Antetokounmpo and 10-16 without him this season.<\/p>\n

Nikola Jovic<\/a> (back) missed his second straight game for the Heat. He traveled with the team to Milwaukee, but returned to Miami on Tuesday for treatment.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Heat: At the Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Bucks: Host the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

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

Rich Rovito, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Kevin Porter Jr. matched his season high with 32 points and Bobby Portis and Ryan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-497977","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\/497977","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=497977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}