{"id":432515,"date":"2023-04-02T00:58:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T04:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432515"},"modified":"2023-04-01T23:40:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T03:40:47","slug":"butler-scores-35-heat-outscore-mavericks-129-122","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/butler-scores-35-heat-outscore-mavericks-129-122\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler scores 35, Heat outscore Mavericks 129-122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Butler helped his team <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/miami-heat\/\">Miami Heat<\/a> with 35 points and 12 assists to beat <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> 129-122 at Miami-Dade Arena in Miami, FL.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dominant performances on both sides tonight, but Jimmy ultimately led us to the W ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nSqmPXd1PI\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/nSqmPXd1PI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Miami HEAT (@MiamiHEAT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiamiHEAT\/status\/1642352148347502592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cody Zeller notched 20 points for the Floridian team that ended 3 games losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>Each of Max Strus and Kevin Love finished with 18 points, as Tyler Herro scored 15. Mavs had their best shooting performance this season with 61% but still lost.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t necessarily have drawn it up this way,&#8221; Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\">Luka Doncic<\/a> almost had a triple-double as he scored 42 points, gave 8 assists, and grabbed 10 rebounds. Tim Hardaway Jr. helped with 31 points as the other team star <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\">Kyrie Irving<\/a> notched 23.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our defense was nonexistent,&#8221; Dallas coach Jason Kidd said. &#8220;Couldn&#8217;t get stops.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dallas will travel to play against Atlanta Hawks on Sunday, while Miami will make a trip to play on Tuesday against <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/detroit-pistons\/\">Detroit Pistons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qZ9IajYjU9c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Butler helped his team Miami Heat with 35 points and 12 assists to beat Dallas Mavericks 129-122 at Miami-Dade Arena in Miami, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":432516,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16748,18014,16747,17010,17837],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[17975,18133,18115,17912,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Miami beat Dallas and almost ended the Mavs' hopes of clinching playoffs.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432515"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432515"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}