MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — Perhaps the Miami Heat are turning a corner.
Getting big leads hasn’t been a problem lately for Miami. Keeping them, however, has been an enormous issue.
That is, until Saturday.
Kelly Olynyk scored 25 points, Derrick Jones Jr. added 18 off the bench and the Heat never trailed on the way to easily topping the Brooklyn Nets 117-88.
“We needed that. We needed to keep that lead,” Heat guard Dwyane Wade said. “Obviously, at this time of the year everyone has games coming rapidly. You don’t always want to be in a fourth-quarter battle.