{"id":457158,"date":"2026-02-08T22:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/457158\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T22:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:52:07","slug":"heat-132-101-wizards-feb-8-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/457158\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat 132-101 Wizards (Feb 8, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5214640\/kasparas-jakucionis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kasparas Jakucionis<\/a> was 6 for 6 from 3-point range and scored 22 points, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4066261\/bam-adebayo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bam Adebayo<\/a> also had 22 and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-heat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Heat<\/a> routed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-wizards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Wizards<\/a> 132-101 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/2595516\/norman-powell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Norman Powell<\/a> added 21 points for Miami, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5105623\/kel&#039;el-ware\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kel&#8217;el Ware<\/a> had 19 points and 14 rebounds. The Heat snapped a two-game losing streak and added to their team record with a 14th 130-plus point effort of the season.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3059319\/andrew-wiggins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Wiggins<\/a> had 11 points and 10 rebounds as eighth-place Miami closed within a half-game of seventh-place Orlando in the Eastern Conference. <\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4997537\/tristan-vukcevic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tristan Vukcevic<\/a> had 14 points to lead Washington. The Wizards lost back-to-back games for the first time since a nine-game slide from Jan. 7-24.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5160992\/alex-sarr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Sarr<\/a> added 12 points and 12 rebounds for the Wizards, who saw both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5174563\/kyshawn-george\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyshawn George<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5104155\/bilal-coulibaly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bilal Coulibaly<\/a> depart early with injuries.<\/p>\n<p>              The Heat turned an early nine-point deficit into a 74-52 lead by halftime. They outrebounded the Wizards 36-22 in the half.<\/p>\n<p>              Miami forced 10 third-quarter turnovers to extend its lead to 107-75.<\/p>\n<p>              Up next&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              Heat: Host Utah on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>              Wizards: At Cleveland on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON &#8212; \u2014 Kasparas Jakucionis was 6 for 6 from 3-point range and scored 22 points, Bam Adebayo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-457158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}