{"id":615131,"date":"2026-02-21T04:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/615131\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T04:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:43:14","slug":"herro-scores-24-points-in-return-to-help-the-heat-beat-the-hawks-128-97-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/615131\/","title":{"rendered":"Herro scores 24 points in return to help the Heat beat the Hawks 128-97"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/tyler-herro-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Herro<\/a> scored 24 points in his return from a rib injury and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/miami-heat-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Heat<\/a> never trailed in a 128-97 victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/atlanta-hawks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/bam-adebayo-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bam Adebayo<\/a> had 17 points, eight rebounds and five assists for Miami, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/norman-powell-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Norman Powell<\/a> added 15 points in his first game since participating in his first All-Star game. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/kelel-ware-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kel&#8217;el Ware<\/a> had 14 points and 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/jalen-johnson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Johnson<\/a> had 16 points, 16 rebounds and 11 assists for Atlanta for his 11th triple-double of the season. It is the most in franchise history for a single season and leads the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Oneka Okongwu led Atlanta with 22 points. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/cj-mccollum-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CJ McCollum<\/a> had 20 points off the bench. He hit four 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Herro played his 12th game of the season. He missed the last 15 because of a rib injury and returned with a flak jacket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">He came off the bench and did not seem restricted at all, scoring 16 points in the first half. Herro also has missed time with ankle and toe injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">The Heat have won six of seven on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Heat: Host Memphis on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Hawks: Host Brooklyn on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Tyler Herro scored 24 points in his return from a rib injury and the Miami&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[208,1179,7,7046,79016,2990,981,189,1407,6,12,558,492],"class_list":{"0":"post-615131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-atlanta-hawks","9":"tag-bam-adebayo","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-cj-mccollum","12":"tag-event_recap","13":"tag-jalen-johnson","14":"tag-kelel-ware","15":"tag-miami-heat","16":"tag-national-basketball-association","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-nba-draft","19":"tag-norman-powell","20":"tag-tyler-herro"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116106795778858186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}