WIZARDS 116, HEAT 110
Wizards run away in fourth
Wall, Green power team to third win
Bradley Beal and Austin Rivers each scored 18 points for the Wizards, who won for only the third time in 12 games. Rivers and Wall had 10 points apiece in the final quarter.
Washington opened the fourth on a 31-12 run, before the Heat trimmed what was as much as a 17-point deficit down considerably in the final minutes but never seriously threatened again. Dwight Howard finished with 11 points and 16 rebounds for the Wizards, who outrebounded Miami 48-38.
The Wizards also got a boost at the foul line, shooting 28 for 38 there — compared with 20 for 26 by Miami.
Josh Richardson scored 24 points and Rodney McGruder had a career-high 22 for the Heat. Wayne Ellington added 16 points, Hassan Whiteside finished with 15 points and 14 rebounds and Tyler Johnson scored 12 points for Miami.
The Heat were again without Dwyane Wade, who sat a third consecutive game after the birth of his daughter. Goran Dragic returned after missing Miami's last two games with right knee inflammation, but he struggled and shot 0 for 7 in 21 minutes.
Miami led 35-25 after one quarter and pushed its lead out to 12 early in the second, and couldn't finish. Washington was within three by halftime, two going into the fourth and took what was then its largest lead of the night — six points, 92-86 — when Wall connected on a foul-line jumper to cap a 9-1 spurt that opened the fourth.
And that set the tone for the finish. A night after Washington trimmed a 25-point deficit down to one late but fell in Orlando, it finished the job in Miami.