Milwaukee beat the Miami Heat.
The Milwaukee Bucks, with a good contribution from Carlos Delfino, on Saturday handed another setback to the Miami Heat, Dwyane Wade this time while watching the game from the bench.
John Salmons scored 18 points, Delfino scored 15 points as the Bucks took advantage of Wade’s absence through injury to win his sixth straight aion kinah, this time by 94-71.
The Bucks took the lead for good at the end of the first half with a triple Delfino.
Milwaukee is now 3-0 against Miami this season and is on track to win the season series for the first time in seven years.
Jerry Stackhouse had 16 points for the Bucks, who connected on 48% of the launches. Miami hit only 36% and delivered just nine assists.
Delfino started in 36:25 minutes and also contributed eight rebounds and five assists.
Jermaine O’Neal had 14 points for the buy aion kinah. Michael Beasley scored five of 14 shots and scored 10 points.
For Miami, a Puerto Rican guard Carlos Arroyo, accused of resisting police over an incident road on Friday, got three points and two rebounds in a substitution of 12 minutes.