Bam Adebayo scored 22 points, Jimmy Butler finished with 19 points and 13 rebounds and the Miami Heat held off the Detroit Pistons 103-102 on Wednesday night in the season opener for both clubs.
103-102 on Wednesday night in the season opener for both clubs. The Heat led by 19 with 9:07 left, went scoreless in the final 2:57 and survived when a 30-footer by Detroit’shad 13 points and 10 rebounds for the reigning Eastern Conference champion Heat. Miami was 14-8 in games decided by three points or less last season, 16-9 when adding in the playoffs — and now, 1-0 this season.
Detroit put together a 14-0 run — spanning only 2:43 — to get within 94-89, the closest the Pistons had been to the lead since midway through the second quarter. And they didn't stop there: back-to-back scores off turnovers, the second of them a 3-point by Cunningham, got the Pistons within one.“A win is a win, as Spo would tell you, as I would tell you, as anybody in that locker room would tell you,” Butler said.
“We have a resilient group,” Williams said. “The guys believe in what we're doing. They believe in each other. ... I think that stuff is really important.”
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