Miami Heat Extend Streak to 21 Straight

16 Mar, 2013

LeBron James and Chris Bosh each scored 28 points, and Miami kept its win streak going, beating the Bucks 107-94.

Only three other teams have won 20 in a row in one season, and the Heat now trail just the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers (33) and the 2007-08 Houston Rockets (22) after moving ahead of the 1970-71 Bucks.

The Heat haven’t lost since they fell at Indiana on Feb. 1, and they return Sunday to Toronto, the place where this streak started two days later – back when they were a mediocre road team barely on top of the Eastern Conference standings.

“I think the biggest thing for our team was watching the Super Bowl and getting away from basketball in a sense and just enjoying each other,” Dwyane Wade said. “We got the famous speech from Shane Battier and we’ve been rolling ever since.

Bosh hit from all angles and was 12 of 16 in the game, nailing two 3-pointers. He even converted a four-point play that made it 67-53 about five minutes into the third quarter.

James was his usual dominant self, and Wade finished with 20 points as the Heat avenged a loss at Milwaukee in late December. There’s a chance these two teams could meet in the first round of the playoffs, and Milwaukee’s Brandon Jennings basically said bring it on.

“I still don’t take anything back about playing Miami in the first round,” he said afterward as he kept his eyes on North Carolina State’s ACC tournament game. “I still think we match up well against them. We just had an off night tonight.”

Ersan Ilyasova led Milwaukee with 26 points and a season-high 17 rebounds. Jennings scored 21 but was 6 of 15 from the field, and the Bucks shot just over 37 percent. Monta Ellis struggled, finishing with seven points after scoring 26 in the previous game at Washington, and the Bucks dropped their third straight.

AP

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