LA Clippers @ Miami Heat
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM ET
Kaseya Center, Miami, FL | Game ID: 22400948
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
MIA 20 32 32 20 104LAC 30 27 35 27 119
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Bogdanovic scores 30, Zubac adds 26 and Clippers roll past Heat 119-104
MIAMI -- — Bogdan Bogdanovic scored a season-high 30 points and Ivica Zubac added 26 points and 14 rebounds, helping the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Miami Heat 119-104 on Wednesday night.
James Harden had 24 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds for the Clippers, who won for the fourth time in five games and pulled within 1 1/2 games of idle Golden State for the No. 6 — and last guaranteed — playoff spot in the Western Conference.
Tyler Herro scored 31 points and Andrew Wiggins added 22 for the Heat, who fell 2 1/2 games behind Atlanta in the race for the No. 7 spot and most advantageous play-in position in the Eastern Conference.
The Clippers were again without coach Tyronn Lue, who has missed three straight games while dealing with back pain. Assistant coach Brian Shaw again served as acting coach.
Takeaways Clippers: Kawhi Leonard didn't play on the second night of a back-to-back, so he couldn't add to his success against the Heat. When Leonard plays — for San Antonio, Toronto or the Clippers — his teams have won 15 consecutive regular-season games against Miami. The last time he played in a loss against the Heat, excluding the NBA Finals, was 2013.
Heat: Miami — now 9-19 in its last 28 games — has dropped a season-high five consecutive contests. This is only the fourth losing streak of at least five games for Miami in the last seven years.
Key moment A 13-4 run over a three-minute span of the fourth quarter pushed the Clippers' lead from eight to 17.
Key stat Zubac has 10 consecutive double-doubles. He’s the sixth player to do that this season, joining Domantas Sabonis , Giannis Antetokounmpo , Karl-Anthony Towns , Nikola Jokic and Victor Wembanyama .
Up next Both teams play Friday. The Clippers visit Atlanta and Miami hosts Boston.
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Who
Who is who
the initials in the Players column
MIAAW A. Wiggins
BA B. Adebayo
DM D. Mitchell
DR D. Robinson
HH H. Highsmith
JJ J. Jaquez Jr.
KW K. Ware
PL P. Larsson
TH T. Herro
TR T. Rozier
LACAC A. Coffey
BB B. Bogdanović
DE D. Eubanks
DJ D. Jones Jr.
IZ I. Zubac
JH J. Harden
JM J. Miller
KB K. Brown
KD K. Dunn
NB N. Batum
MIA/LAC the team itself, not a player
-- the feed named nobody
What
What happened
the codes in the Events column
M2 / M3 made 2 / made 3
X2 / X3 missed 2 / missed 3
FT / X1 free throw made / missed
AST assist
OR / DR offensive / defensive rebound
STL steal
BLK block
TO turnover
FL foul
OF offensive foul — ends the possession
VIOL violation
JUMP jump ball
TM timeout
IR instant replay
HE heave at the buzzer, filed to the team
Where
Where a shot came from
the middle field of M3.LW.25
RM at the rim inside 4 ft
RC right corner
RW right wing
SO straight on
LW left wing
LC left corner
M3.LW.25 made 3, left wing, 25 ft
X2.RM.01 missed 2, at the rim, 1 ft
When
When it happened
the Offset column
one number per event, in the Events order:
whole seconds from the start of the
possession to that event
Events FL X3.RC.23 OR M2.RM.01
Offset 0 18 22 24
the foul opens the possession at 0s;
the putback ends it at 24s, which is
the possession's own Dur