Heat cut deficit to Lakers in the Finals
LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLA. » Jimmy Butler is not ready to go home.
A triple- double later, he joined NBA Finals lore — and the shorthanded Miami Heat might have made this title matchup a series after all.
Butler finished with 40 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists, and the Heat beat the Los Angeles Lakers 115-104 on Sunday night to get within 2-1 — doing so with starters BamAdebayo and Goran Dragic still unable to play because of injury.
It was the third 40-point triplein finals history, Butler coming up with the game of his lifewhentheHeat needed itmost. He was 14 for 20 fromthe field.
Game 4 is Tuesday night. Tyler Herro and Kelly Olynyk each had 17 points for Miami, which got 13 from Duncan Robinson and 12 from Jae Crowder.
LeBron James had 25 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists for the Lakers, while Kyle Kuzma and Markieff Morris each had 19 points off the bench. Anthony Davis managed 15 for the Lakers.
Golf
KORN FERRY TOUR » Former Chico State standout Brandon Harkins closed with a 71 to finish tied for 36th at 12-under 276, nine shots off the lead at the Savannah Golf Championship in Georgia.
Former Pleasant Valley High standout Noah Norton shot a 73 in the same event to wind up at 6 under.
Tennis
TREVISAN INTO QUARTERFINALS » Martina Trevisan has been doing video chats from her hotel room with her mental coach every day along the way to the quarterfinals at Roland Garros, a run the 159thranked qualifier acknowledges is “a little” shocking, just not as much to her as to everyone else.
So after Trevisan’s 6- 4, 6- 4 victory against No. 5 seed Kiki Bertens at Court Suzanne Lenglen, which was just as out- ofnowhere at this out- of-nowhere French Open as Iga Swiatek’s 6-1, 6-2 win against 2018 champion and No. 1 seed Simona Halep over at Court Philippe Chatrier, the 26-year- old from Florence, Italy, planned to stick to the routine.