Dwyane Wade Complete Highlights [32 Points] vs Celtics 11.3.09

MIAMI(AP) It's that time of year, where little aches and pains are starting to add up for Dwyane Wade. Sore knee, stiff ankle, that sort of thing.

He tried to say it was a problem Wednesday.

"I was only able to get 32,'' Wade said, unable to hold in a laugh - knowing those 32 points were good enough for the Miami Heat.

Wade continued his post-All-Star offensive tear, hitting the game-sealing 3-pointer with 34 seconds left, and the Heat held on to beat the injury-depleted Boston Celtics 107-99.

Boston trailed 91-76 with 9:04 left, cut the deficit to one with a 16-2 run over the next 4:10, but Wade was simply too much in the final minutes. He scored five straight Miami points to slow the Celtics' rally, and the Heat never lost the lead.

"It's a gutsy win for us,'' Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said.

And a costly loss for the defending NBA champions, who fell two games behind Cleveland in the race for the Eastern Conference's best record.

Ray Allen hit his first six shots and finished with 27 for Boston, but only three of those came after halftime - as he missed six of his final seven shots. Leon Powe had 23 points and 13 rebounds for the Celtics, who got 16 points from Paul Pierce.

"When you get down that far and you are fighting back, it's tough to win games, especially on the road,'' Celtics coach Doc Rivers said.

Boston led 55-50 at the half, then got outscored 32-18 in the third quarter.

"There is no excuse,'' Pierce said. "We had our opportunities. We had the lead at halftime and had a bad quarter in the third quarter. We dug ourselves a hole. We have to understand that we're a defensive team first and that's how we win games.''

Jamario Moon scored 13 points and grabbed eight rebounds for Miami, which stayed 1 1/2 games behind Atlanta for fourth place in the Eastern Conference. Jermaine O'Neal scored 12 for the Heat.

The Celtics were without five injured players, including Kevin Garnett (who missed his ninth game with a sprained right knee) and point guard Rajon Rondo (sprained right ankle).

They could have used a little help.

"Boston's still one of the one or two top teams in the East,'' Heat guard Mario Chalmers said. "Any time you get a win over a team like that, whether they've got all their big weapons or not, you take the win.''

Kendrick Perkins had 13 and Eddie House scored 12 for Boston. Stephon Marbury was 0-for-6 in 23 minutes, not scoring a single point. Udonis Haslem finished with 10 points for Miami, as did Chalmers and Daequan Cook.

The Heat (35-29) tied a season best by moving six games over .500, and beat Boston for the first time in seven meetings.

Until the final minutes, and by his own standards lately, Wade was having a relatively tame night.

In his first 11 games since the All-Star break, the NBA's leading scorer was averaging 36.5 points and 10.8 assists, including the 48-point outburst against Chicago on Monday night - a game where he hit a running 3-pointer at the buzzer to give the Heat a victory.

Wade broke his own franchise record by reaching double digits in scoring for the 79th straight game, and tied another team mark with his 20th straight game scoring at least 20 points.

And in the end, he pulled off more theatrics in this one, including swishing the 3-pointer over Allen's outstretched arm for the game-clincher.

"We have to protect home court,'' Wade said, "by any means necessary.''

Miami scored the first 11 points of the third quarter. Moon scored the final five points of that quick spurt, first with a 3-pointer and then an alley-oop slam off a high-arcing pass from Wade.

The lead changed hands five times in the third quarter, before Miami used a 16-4 run to get some separation. Cook hit a pair of 3-pointers a minute apart for an 82-71 lead, and the Heat settled for a nine-point cushion going into the fourth.

Notes: Including Wade, five of the six all-time leading Miami scorers - Alonzo Mourning, Glen Rice, Tim Hardaway and Eddie Jones - were in the arena. ... Several NFL players were in the stands, including Edgerrin James, Channing Crowder and Jeremy Shockey. ... Celtics forward Mikki Moore pulled off something not seen often: He committed four fouls in the first quarter, and didn't even start the game. Moore needed only 7 1/2 minutes for the contact spree.

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[bluewhale17]

simply the best

[blackezi3]

Im a big Celtics fan, but damn I love Dwyane Wade!!!!

[SuperSORAW]

DA WAYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN­NNNEEEE WADEEEEEE

[JohnnyBankai]

The Miami Heats back then were an awesome team, they had alot of players that made the team looks very versatile ; beasley, dorell wright, dejuan cook, jamrio moon, and even jermaine O'neal. Now the Miami Heats looks like a team carried by just 3 players, it gets boring to see dwayne wade team with lebron james every day for the entire team. Miami isn't dwayne wade anymore, it's lebron. -_-

[Alexwkj]

@MrRaovat Fine, CB1. Lol.

[Alexwkj]

Wade is unbelievable. If only he had supporting cast like what Kobe has for the past 2 seasons, Miami would have been a force to reckon with after Shaq left. Fortunately, LeBron and CB4 arrived just in time. ;D

[warrenlogan540]

#VIDEOPOSTERID#, yo that's beast. That's spurting from a 5 6 PG who finish alley dunks. I followed the dunk training program over at 50 inch vertical (dot) com and gained more than 15 inches on my dunk.

Dwyane Wade Complete Highlights [32 Points] vs Celtics 11.3.09

[JNboy23]

look at the chick at 4:22

[urchic]

Kobe is my fav of all time but both Wade and Lebron looked better playing botson during the regular season...Then lebron looked better than him in the 2008 playoffs maybe Boston isnt the team he can show off on but I thought the greats always chose the best team the have the best games...

[gocelts34n7]

yo put up the one where he got elbowed in the mouth and started bleeding with like 8 minutes left in the fourth quarter and they were down by like 15 points, and then he went on a freakiking RAMPAGE and scored mad quick points and started diming it up and dunking on cats and hitting midrange shots and 3pointers and getting mad steals and blocks, the heat went on a 17-0 run and Wade just went bonkers yelling this is my house, it was against the knicks

insanity