{"id":623722,"date":"2026-02-25T10:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/623722\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:11:24","slug":"porter-portis-and-rollins-power-the-bucks-to-a-128-117-win-over-the-heat-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/623722\/","title":{"rendered":"Porter, Portis and Rollins power the Bucks to a 128-117 win over the Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Kevin Porter<\/a> Jr. matched his season high with 32 points and Bobby Portis<\/a> and Ryan Rollins<\/a> scored 21 apiece as the Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> beat the Miami Heat<\/a> 128-117 on Tuesday night for their fourth win in five games.<\/p>\n

Kyle Kuzma<\/a> added 19 points and Ousmane Dieng<\/a> 11 for the Bucks.<\/p>\n

Norman Powell<\/a> scored 26 points, Bam Adebayo<\/a> finished with 18 points and nine rebounds and Andrew Wiggins<\/a> had 16 points for the Heat, who had their three-game winning streak halted.<\/p>\n

Tyler Herro<\/a> and Kel\u2019el Ware each scored 14 points and Pelle Larsson<\/a> 10 for Miami. Davion Mitchell<\/a>, who returned after missing a game due to illness, added eight points and eight assists.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee held a 63-58 advantage at the half before the teams exchanged leads in the third. Miami held a 93-89 advantage heading into the final period.<\/p>\n

Ware\u2019s 3-pointer early in the fourth gave Miami a nine-point lead, its largest to that point. The Bucks battled back, quickly cutting their deficit to 102-100 on a 3-pointer by Portis before Milwaukee moved ahead 103-102 when Dieng hit from long distance.<\/p>\n

The back-and-forth battle continued throughout the quarter with Milwaukee taking a 118-116 lead when Porter sank a 3-pointer from the corner while drawing a foul and sinking the free throw. Back-to-back baskets by Rollins with a just over one minute remaining sealed the victory.<\/p>\n

The Bucks led 30-29 after one quarter, paced by Kuzman\u2019s 13 points.<\/p>\n

Miami scored 16 points off 11 Bucks turnovers, and Milwaukee managed just 11 points on 16 Heat turnovers.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee\u2019s Giannis Antetokounmpo missed his 12th consecutive game since straining his right calf on Jan. 23. The Bucks are 15-15 with Antetokounmpo and 10-16 without him this season.<\/p>\n

Nikola Jovic<\/a> (back) missed his second straight game for the Heat. He traveled with the team to Milwaukee, but returned to Miami on Tuesday for treatment.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Heat: At the Philadelphia 76ers on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Bucks: Host the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Kevin Porter Jr. matched his season high with 32 points and Bobby Portis and Ryan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3778],"tags":[500,1179,7,507,491,79016,144,981,365,124,295,189,3881,121,1407,6,2202,558,6609,2248,2763,492],"class_list":{"0":"post-623722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-miami-heat","7":"tag-andrew-wiggins","8":"tag-bam-adebayo","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-bobby-portis","11":"tag-davion-mitchell","12":"tag-event_recap","13":"tag-heat","14":"tag-kelel-ware","15":"tag-kevin-porter-jr","16":"tag-kyle-kuzma","17":"tag-miami","18":"tag-miami-heat","19":"tag-miamiheat","20":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","21":"tag-national-basketball-association","22":"tag-nba","23":"tag-nikola-jovic","24":"tag-norman-powell","25":"tag-ousmane-dieng","26":"tag-pelle-larsson","27":"tag-ryan-rollins","28":"tag-tyler-herro"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116130734952538439","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623722","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=623722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}