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    "headline": "Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bam Adebayo score 37 each as the Heat beat the Cavaliers 133-121 in Miami",
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    "articleBody": "Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bam Adebayo each scored 37 points, and the Miami Heat beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 133-121 at home on Friday, November 13. The 74 combined points gave Miami its first win of this season’s Emirates NBA Cup group play and put the new frontcourt partners in franchise history. According to the NBA, they are only the second pair in Heat history to each score 35 or more in the same game. The first was LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, who did it in 2012 and 2013. The box score Giannis Antetokounmpo: 37 points, 9 rebounds Bam Adebayo: 37 points, 14 rebounds, plus-23 (both scoring and rebounding were season highs) Davion Mitchell: 22 points, 17 assists, 1 turnover Ryan Conwell: 20 points on 12 shots in 32 minutes Donovan Mitchell (Cleveland): 25 points on 21 shots The two big men needed only 39 shots between them for their 74 points. That works out to almost 1.9 points per shot, and it accounted for 56% of Miami’s 133. How Miami pulled away This was not a wire-to-wire win. Cleveland, without Evan Mobley and Sam Merrill, bombed away from three early and led 57-54 at the half after a James Harden buzzer-beater over a double team. Miami was also shorthanded, with Pelle Larsson out ill and Klay Thompson out with an ankle injury. Without Mobley, Cleveland had Jarrett Allen to guard only one of the two Heat bigs at a time. Miami hunted that mismatch all night, at times running Antetokounmpo and Adebayo through pick-and-rolls with each other. Antetokounmpo drew a stream of fouls before half-time, and the pair had 31 points on 16 shots by the break. Adebayo took over early in the fourth quarter, attacking his former teammate Thomas Bryant on repeated possessions. Within three minutes Miami’s lead was nine, and Adebayo had 29 points on 15 shots. A Tyrese Proctor three cut it to eight with four minutes left, but Miami closed it out. The point guard who made it work The quiet star was Davion Mitchell. His 17 assists tied his career high and were the most by a Heat player in a game since Goran Dragić in 2016. He also became only the third player in franchise history with 20 points, 15 assists and no more than one turnover in a game, after Wade and Dragić. The reason was simple geometry. Opponents keep dropping their big men back to protect the rim against Antetokounmpo, which leaves space in the middle of the floor. Mitchell kept threading pocket passes into that gap, and the two bigs went 8-of-10 from the upper paint. Why this matters for Miami Antetokounmpo arrived in Miami by trade this past offseason, and there were questions about whether he and Adebayo, two players who do their best work near the basket, could share the floor. Friday was the strongest answer yet. Badiyaa tracked his early form in our look at what the NBA’s opening nights told us about Giannis and Wembanyama, and the wider rookie story of the season in Yaxel Lendeborg’s early impact with the Warriors. Miami shares East Group B with Indiana, which beat the defending Cup champion New York Knicks 106-104 the same night, leaving the Knicks 0-2 in group play. Further reading Wikipedia: Giannis Antetokounmpo Wikipedia: Bam Adebayo Image: Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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