SPORTS NEWS:NBA
Source: AP (www.nba.com)
Pacers get 20 from Granger, beat Miami Heat 93-77
MIAMI(AP) All the Miami Heat banners, reminders of everything from division titles to the 2006 NBA championship, were missing from the rafters Monday night.
Fitting, because the Heat look nothing like champions these days.
Danny Granger had 20 points and 11 rebounds, Brandon Rush added 20 points and the Indiana Pacers added to Miami's week of woe, beating the Heat 93-77 in the worst shooting game of Dwyane Wade's career.
Wade finished with three points on 1-for-13 shooting. He had never shot so poorly when taking at least 13 tries, and the point total was the third-lowest of his career. He has been held scoreless twice.
LeBron James scored 25 points and Chris Bosh had 21 points and 11 rebounds for Miami, which learned earlier Monday that top reserve Udonis Haslem will need surgery to repair a torn foot ligament and be out indefinitely.
T.J. Ford scored 13 points and Mike Dunleavy added 11 for the Pacers, who took control with a 29-11 run in the second quarter.
Boston blows out Atlanta right from the start
ATLANTA(AP) The Boston Celtics looked like the fresh team, not the one playing back-to-back games on the road.
The Atlanta Hawks? No one's quite sure what's going on with this listless bunch.
Nate Robinson had 16 points and 10 assists filling in for Rajon Rondo and the Celtics blew out Atlanta right from the start, racing to a 26-point lead in the first quarter on the way to a 99-76 rout Monday night.
This one was over before many fans had even settled into their seats. Paul Pierce hit a jumper, Kevin Garnett made another and the Celtics were off and running.
Pierce said everyone in green was still smarting from a one-point loss at Toronto the day before, and they hadn't forgotten what happened last season, when Atlanta swept all four meetings.
Talk about making a statement.
"The whole bus drive from Toronto to the airport to customs - even this morning's shootaround - you just saw the focus," Pierce said. "Guys were (ticked) off. That's the way we should be every night. We should never have to use losses to motivate us."
Atlanta missed five of its first six shots, and Boston had a double-digit lead before the game was 4 minutes old. Shaquille O'Neal's dunk made it 13-3, prompting the first of three timeouts coach Larry Drew called in the opening quarter in a desperate attempts to slow the Celtics.
OTHER SCORES:
OKC Beats MIN 117-107
PHX downs HOU 123-116
SAS over ORL 106-97
UTA wins over SAC 94-83
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