Nuggets Fold 129-114 to the Heat

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MIAMI (AP) Rookies Justise Winslow and Josh Richardson are acclimating just fine to their first NBA playoff push.

Winslow scored a season-high 20 points, Richardson added 17 - and pulled off a dazzling sequence in the fourth quarter - and the Miami Heat held off the Denver Nuggets 124-119 on Monday night.

Dwyane Wade scored 19 points and Joe Johnson added 18 for the Heat. Hassan Whiteside finished with another double-double off the bench, scoring 12 of his 18 points in the fourth quarter and adding 10 rebounds.

"We won tonight, but shootouts, that's not our identity," Winslow said. "It took us a while to wake up, but we got the stops we needed to do and came out with the…