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Adebayo Becomes Heat’s All-Time Rebounding Leader as Miami Beats Hawks 129-117 for First Win
Bam Adebayo scored a season-high 24 points and became the Miami Heat’s all-time leading rebounder as Miami claimed its first victory of the season, beating the Atlanta Hawks 129-117 on Wednesday night at State Farm Arena.
Adebayo grabbed nine rebounds to break Udonis Haslem’s franchise record of 5,791 career rebounds, ending the night with 5,794. Giannis Antetokounmpo added 24 points and a season-high 18 rebounds for the Heat (1-4), who had dropped their first four games. Andrew Wiggins scored 18 points, Pelle Larsson added 17 points and eight assists, Tim Hardaway Jr. scored 14, Bobby Portis Jr. had 11, and Davion Mitchell finished with 10 points and 10 assists.
Miami outscored Atlanta 70-52 in points in the paint and shot 53.1 percent from the field. The Heat led 34-25 after one quarter, took a 69-56 lead into halftime on Nikola Jovic’s halfcourt shot at the buzzer, and pushed the margin to 95-77 late in the third quarter.
Nickeil Alexander-Walker led Atlanta with 23 points on five 3-pointers, and rookie guard Kingston Flemings scored a season-high 23 points on 9-of-12 shooting. CJ McCollum put up 13 points, Jalen Johnson added 12 points, 11 assists and nine rebounds, and Onyeka Okongwu had 11 for the Hawks (2-3), who have lost three straight since opening the season with two wins.
Atlanta, down 18 in the third quarter, pulled within 118-112 on Dyson Daniels’ tip-in with 3:33 left before Antetokounmpo answered with four consecutive points, and Miami closed the game on an 11-5 run.
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Nikola Jokic had 21 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists for the 200th regular-season triple-double of his career, and the Denver Nuggets never trailed in a 104-91 victory over the winless New Orleans Pelicans on Wednesday night at Smoothie King Center.
Jokic became the second player in NBA history to reach 200 triple-doubles, joining Russell Westbrook, who holds the record with 209. It was Jokic’s second triple-double of the season, both of them against New Orleans. Jamal Murray led Denver with 23 points, Aaron Gordon added 15 points and 11 rebounds, Christian Braun scored 15 and Trevon Brazile chipped in 11 as all five Nuggets starters reached double figures and Denver used just nine players.
The Nuggets shot 62 percent in the first quarter while building a 37-18 lead, and Marvin Bagley III’s runner gave them their largest lead at 44-22 early in the second quarter.
Zion Williamson scored a game-high 25 points for the Pelicans (0-4), who pulled within 88-83 in the fourth quarter on a Williamson 3-pointer. Murray answered with a 3-pointer and a driving finger roll to push the lead back to 10, and Braun followed with two late 3-pointers to close it out. Derik Queen had 11 points and 12 rebounds off the bench for New Orleans, and Jeremiah Fears scored 11.
New Orleans shot just 7 of 30 from 3-point range and dropped to 0-4 under first-year coach Jamahl Mosley.
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