{"id":91561,"date":"2017-02-28T00:29:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T05:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=91561"},"modified":"2017-02-28T00:29:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T05:29:12","slug":"curry-mavs-hand-heat-3rd-loss-in-19-games-with-96-89-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/28\/curry-mavs-hand-heat-3rd-loss-in-19-games-with-96-89-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Curry, Mavs hand Heat 3rd loss in 19 games with 96 89 win"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Seth Curry scored 29 points, Harrison Barnes added 24 and the Dallas Mavericks beat Miami 96-89 on Monday night, handing the Heat just their third loss in 19 games. (Photo: Dallas Mavericks\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

DALLAS \u2013Seth Curry scored 29 points, Harrison Barnes added 24 and the Dallas Mavericks beat Miami 96-89 on Monday night, handing the Heat just their third loss in 19 games.<\/p>\n

Curry looked a little like famous older brother Stephen Curry of Golden State by hitting two long 3-pointers in the second half, the latter giving Dallas a 90-89 lead. The Mavericks rallied from 14 points down in the first quarter and let an 11-point third-quarter lead get away.<\/p>\n

Two games after scoring a career-high 31 points in a loss at Minnesota, Curry was 5 of 7 from long range to help the Mavericks improve to 2-0 with forward-centre Nerlens Noel, who came from Philadelphia before the trade deadline.<\/p>\n

Goran Dragic scored 24 points for the Heat, who went scoreless over the final 4:37 as a three-game winning streak ended.<\/p>\n

Hassan Whiteside, a free agent target for Dallas last summer, had 19 points and 19 rebounds. Now the Mavericks are preparing for a future with the 22-year-old Noel, who had a crowd-energizing block from behind on Whiteside and finished with six points and six rebounds.<\/p>\n

Dragic finished a 9-0 Heat run with a 3-pointer that bounced high off the front of the rim and went in for an 89-84 lead. But Miami missed its last seven shots, and the Mavericks scored the final six points on free throws after Curry’s go-ahead shot.<\/p>\n

Curry scored 11 points in the second quarter, including a three-point play that gave Dallas its first lead at 48-46 after the Mavericks trailed by 14 in the first quarter. He had another flurry late in the third, hitting a long 3 and a pull-up jumper for the final five points as Dallas took a 78-69 lead into the final quarter.<\/p>\n

TIP-INS<\/p>\n

Heat: C Willie Reed won’t need a boot or crutches to treat bursitis in his right ankle. Coach Erik Spoelstra said Reed was day to day. … The visit to Dallas was the Miami’s last road game against the West this season.<\/p>\n

Mavericks: Coach Rick Carlisle said G J.J. Barea is at least a week away from returning from a left calf strain that has sidelined him the past 16 games and for 33 of the 41 games he has missed this season. … G Quinn Cook, undrafted in 2015 out of Duke, made his NBA debut a day after signing a 10-day contract, getting two points and two assists in 17 minutes. … Seth Curry had a big night while his brother had a most miserable one. Stephen Curry was a career-worst 0 for 11 from deep in the Warriors’ win over Philadelphia on Monday.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n

Heat: Home against Philadelphia on Wednesday in the third game of a six-game stretch alternating between home and road. That stretch ends at defending champion Cleveland on the second night of a back-to-back Saturday.<\/p>\n

Mavericks: At Atlanta on Wednesday before a season-long five-game homestand starting with Memphis on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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