MIAMI — LeBron James took over at the end of regulation, Chris Bosh tied the game in overtime, and Dwyane Wade provided the exclamation point moments before the power was knocked out at AmericanAirlines Arena.
Miami’s “Big Three” was big time.
And the Heat needed every one of its clutch plays.
Wade’s jumper with 0.1 seconds left gave the Heat a 93-91 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Saturday night, a game in which James scored his team’s last eight points of regulation to lead a wild comeback and that omnipresent question — “So, who takes the big shots for Miami at crunch time?” — had three answers.
“Who’s going to take the last shot? Whoever’s open,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “And that’s the point. We have a lot of weapons.”
Wade scored 28 points, James added 27 and Bosh had 13 for the Heat, which extended its home-court winning streak to 12.
Over the final 18:18 of play, Miami led for just 12.2 seconds.
“We should have won the game,” said Danny Granger, who led the Pacers with 19 points. “The game should have never gotten to overtime. We had them beat.”
Almost did, anyway.
Miami trailed by three late in regulation and the Heat had missed 20 of its last 21 3-point attempts over parts of its last three games. Undeterred, James hit one from the corner to tie it, then took over on the defensive end, swarming Darren Collison so much the Pacers guard couldn’t even get a pass off, much less a potential winning shot.
To overtime they went, and it seemed as if Miami’s end-of-regulation effort would be wasted.
Granger’s runner with 2:01 left in the extra session gave Indiana a 91-86 lead. The Pacers didn’t score again.
James made another 3-pointer to start Miami’s OT rally, Bosh tied it with a jumper with 1:03 left to play, and an offensive rebound off a missed 3 by James gave Miami the ball and a chance to take the last shot of the extra period.
Wade dribbled slowly at Paul George, head-faked him into the air, drew contact and then released a shot that dropped with almost no time left.
Moments later, the power went off in the arena.
“He shot the lights out,” Bosh said afterward.
