Franz Wagner, playing in just his third game after missing 20 straight with a torn right oblique, led the Magic with 29 points. He again played beyond his original minutes restriction, logging 40 minutes. Paolo Banchero, who played 44 minutes, had an overall rough night, finishing with 17 points on 7-of-21 floor shooting and five turnovers.
Tyler Herro is expected to suit up for the Miami Heat when they host the Orlando Magic at the Kaseya Center on Monday.
Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro is hardly in the category of NBA great LeBron James. But he is on pace to join James in rare Heat company. Herro is averaging 24.1
Tyler Herro scored 30 points and had a season-high 12 assists, leading the host Miami Heat to a 125-119 double-overtime win over the Orlando Magic on Monday night.
MIAMI – The Orlando Magic wasted a 12-point advantage in the final six minutes of regulation, and then a six-point lead in overtime before losing to the Miamt.
But instead of those left behind reduced to flailing and failing, the Miami Heat put together one of their best character wins of the season, battling back from a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit
Five quick for the Magic – a Wagner stepback three and a strong hook finish from Goga Bitadze – pushed it to 14 to open the fourth. Back to the Adebayo-Ware lineup, Ware immediately hitting his fourth three after that, still an eight-point game with eight to play.
On the day that Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler was suspended indefinitely, the team beat the Orlando Magic in the ultimate rollercoaster in double overtime, 125-119. While the goal for the Heat was to downplay the situation away from the team,
Butler, however, will not suit up for this game and potentially ever again for the Heat after being suspended by the club for the third time in a month all for conduct detrimental to the team. His indefinite ban is expected to span past the NBA's trade deadline of Feb. 6.
De'Aaron Fox and the Sacramento Kings are seemingly headed for a breakup. The Athletic's Sam Amick reported Tuesday that Fox's agent, Rich Paul of Klutch Sports, has advised the Kings it would be wise for them to move him now,
Jimmy Butler was back from suspension. Again. And then Butler got suspended by the Miami Heat. Again. Butler has been suspended for the third time this month by the Heat, this one starting basically just as the second one was ending.