Because there never is an easy button for the 2024-25 Miami Heat. Not even with the San Antonio Spurs forced at the last minute Saturday night to go without ill All-Star big man Victor Wembanyama. Not even with the Spurs playing on the second night of a back-to-back set and the Heat idle the previous two days.

Bam Adebayo is on track to leave his mark on the Miami Heat’s record book. At Adebayo’s current pace, he and Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade could end up No. 1 and No. 2 as the Heat’s all-time career leaders in categories like two-point field goals made,

For a full 48 minutes, the Spurs and Miami Heat played an entertaining if not precisely beautiful game of basketball Saturday. With one flick of the wrist, Bam Adebayo put an abrupt end to it. Adebayo’s 19-foot jumper as time expired gave the beleaguered Heat a 105-103 victory over the Victor Wembanyama-less Spurs at the Frost Bank Center.