Pacers final score: Heat close out Pacers 87-82

With the game on the line, Jimmy Butler stepped up as a closer for the Miami Heat while the Indiana Pacers were left flailing. That made all the difference in a rock fight, as Butler calmly scored seven straight in Winning Time to break up a tightly contested matchup. Though Indiana would make it interesting late, a nine-point lead in the lowest scoring NBA game this season might as well have been 20, and though Indiana did actually erase a 20-point lead in this game, it was a tall order in the final two and a half minutes.

The Pacers were locked down from the jump, needing a pair of Buddy Hield threes to end the first to keep the game within single digits, a deficit that did not hold well…