In the lane

BEAT THE HEAT: When it comes to beating the Heat, the Milwaukee Bucks apparently are looking at it as money in the bank. The Bucks have come up with the novel concept of a 10-victory (not game) partial-season package that expires when the team has won 10 home games from the start date of the package. The package, perhaps not coincidentally, opens with the Heat’s Jan. 13 visit, an oddly scheduled game tacked on to the Heat’s five-game western swing that begins Jan. 3 against the Phoenix Suns, with the trip to Milwaukee marking the team’s 12th consecutive day on the road. Included in the initial 10 games of the $149 package are both of the Heat’s 2016-17 visits to the BMO Harris Bradley Center (with a Heat return visit on Feb. 8). The Heat are 1-3 in their last four visits to Milwaukee, visits that previously came with Dwyane Wade returning to the city where he starred at Marquette. The Heat won the first game of the four-game season series against the Bucks 96-73 on Nov. 17 at AmericanAirlines Arena. TWIST OF FATE: Wade recruiting for the Chicago Bulls like he did when the Heat landed LeBron James and Chris Bosh? It comes off as preposterous as Wade signing with the Bulls in the first place in July. Nonetheless, Bulls Vice President John Paxson was asked about the possibility during a state-of-the-team media briefing. “I guess in your dreams you hope something like that might happen,” said Paxson, with Wade holding a player option on his Bulls contract for 2017-18. “But if you’re counting on that, to me that’s not a plan. You’re just kind of hoping and wishing. That wasn’t a consideration. We looked at it as Dwyane was available in the short term.” TUNED OUT: Among the reasons Russell Westbrook has been so dialed in this season, he said before Tuesday’s triple-double at AmericanAirlines Arena, is because he’s been able to tune out the noise this season. “I try not to get involved into the crowd as much anymore and try to focus on the things at hand and focus on my teammates, focus on what’s important.” he said before the Thunder pounded the Heat 106-94. “I couldn’t have told you that three years ago, because I was too involved in talking to different people in the stands.” STAN, TOO: Like his former Heat protégé, Erik Spoelstra, Detroit Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy said he, too, takes issue with the NBA’s last-two-minute officiating reports on close games. “What I don’t like, in general, is this emphasis on the last two minutes of the game being more important than the first 46 minutes of the game,” said Van Gundy, whose team Sunday visits AmericanAirlines Arena. “Presumably, at least, in the public eye, the only things we care about are in the last two minutes of the game. We want to stop and replay stuff in the last two minutes of the game because we want to get it right. I guess we don’t care about the first 46.”