The Miami Heat opened play in the Las Vegas Summer League Saturday afternoon with an ugly 110-84 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans inside the Cox Pavilion on the UNLV campus.
The Heat, which went 2-1 earlier this week in a trio of summer league games in the California Classic in Sacramento, plays its next game Sunday at 5 p.m. against the Charlotte Hornets.
u25aa The Heat gave point guard Derrick Walton Jr. and summer league leading scorer Derrick Jones Jr., last season's two-way contract players, the day off and the rest of the team struggled on both ends.