Miami Heat @ Houston Rockets
Saturday, March 21, 2026 at 8:00 PM ET
Toyota Center, Houston, TX | Game ID: 22501027
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
HOU 32 32 23 36 123MIA 29 34 33 26 122
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Durant passes Jordan, then Thompson tips in the winner in Rockets' 123-122 victory over Heat
HOUSTON -- — Kevin Durant scored 27 points to move past Michael Jordan for fifth place on the NBA's career scoring list and Amen Thompson had a tip-in at the buzzer to lift the Houston Rockets to a 123-122 win over the Miami Heat on Saturday night.
Durant’s shot for the win bounced off the rim and Thompson tipped it in to give Houston the thrilling victory. Durant has 32,294 points in his career, two more than Jordan.
Miami trailed by eight before using a 9-2 run, with a 3 from Simon Fontecchio, to get within 119-118 with 46.3 seconds to go. Reed Sheppard made a shot in the lane to push the lead to 121-118 with 12.7 seconds left.
Bam Adebayo made two free throws after that before Jabari Smith Jr. was called for goaltending on a layup by Fontecchio to put the Heat on top 122-121 with 5.4 seconds remaining and set up the wild ending.
Adebayo had 32 points and tied a career high with 21 rebounds for the Heat, who dropped their fourth straight. Adebayo’s big rebounding night came after he had the second-highest scoring game in NBA history when he scored 83 points in a win over the Wizards on March 10.
The Rockets were up by two when Durant made consecutive 3-pointers to make it 117-109. He moved past Jordan on the second and briefly lifted his arms in triumph after draining the shot.
The Heat were up by 11 early in the fourth before Houston used a 15-0 run, with two 3-pointers from Jabari Smith Jr . and one each from Sheppard and Aaron Holiday , to take a 106-102 lead with less than seven minutes remaining.
Fontecchio snapped a four-minute scoring drought for Miami after that, but Holiday hit another 3 seconds later to leave the Rockets up 109-105 midway through the quarter.
Up next Heat: Visit San Antonio on Monday night.
Rockets: Begin a four-game road trip Monday night at Chicago.
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Who
Who is who
the initials in the Players column
MIABA B. Adebayo
DM D. Mitchell
DS D. Smith
JA Jakucionis
KJ K. Jakučionis
KW K. Ware
MG M. Gardner
NJ N. Jović
PL P. Larsson
SF S. Fontecchio
TH T. Herro
HOUAH A. Holiday
AS A. Sengun
AT A. Thompson
DF D. Finney-Smith
JO J. Okogie
JS J. Smith Jr.
JT J. Tate
KD K. Durant
RS R. Sheppard
TE T. Eason
MIA/HOU 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