Miami Heat handed the NBA leading Spurs their worst lost of the season and in the same instance took revenge for the hammering they received in San Antonio the last time the two teams did battle. Miami’s Chris Bosh scored 30 points and grabbed 12 rebounds while Dwayne Wade scored 29 for the Heat.

“It’s huge for us, really, just getting even with this team,” Bosh said. “They beat us pretty good and I’m happy that we were able to respond by playing a complete game tonight. But at the same time, it is just one game.”

LeBron James finished with 21 points, eight assists and six rebounds for the Heat, who have won three straight and moved within two games of Eastern Conference front-runners Boston and Chicago.

Miami lost 125-95 in San Antonio on March 4, the midpoint of a five-game slide that now seems all but forgotten after wins over the Los Angeles Lakers, Memphis Grizzlies and now the Spurs.

“Sometimes when you suffer the results that we were and you have this extreme noise from outside, that can be a distraction only if you let it,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “But in terms of the guys’ confidence, it never really wavered. This is a very confident group. But the consistency that we’ve had the last three games is something we can build on.”

It was the Spurs’ biggest regular-season loss since April 7, 2005, a 104-68 defeat in Dallas.

Tony Parker scored 18 points and Tim Duncan added 14 for the Spurs, who had won 15 of their last 18 against Miami. Before Monday, San Antonio’s worst loss of the season had been a 96-72 defeat in New Orleans.

And this one was decisive in more than the scoring column: Miami out rebounded the Spurs 47-33 and shot 54 percent to San Antonio’s 38.

“We made a lot of shots in San Antonio and they made a lot of shots here,” said Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, whose team endured its third-lowest scoring total and fifth-worst shooting effort of the season. “What goes around comes around.”

According to STATS LLC, it’s just the second time in NBA history that a two-game series had both clubs winning once by 30 or more. The other occurrence came last season, when Dallas beat New York by 50 at Madison Square Garden, then lost at home to the Knicks by 34 nearly two months later.

Source: espn.go.com

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