The Atlanta Hawks, winners of four of their previous six, slammed a comeback effort from the Miami Heat shut, earning the 121-113 victory on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday.
Tyler Herro’s triple — his first-and-only 3-pointer of the game — with 58.3 seconds left brought a once-26-point Hawks lead down to 115-111. Trae Young’s alley-oop to Clint Capela followed by Herro’s floater kept it at four with 34 seconds remaining.
Young sunk a pair of free throws with 25.4 left, but Atlanta forced a five-second violation on the ensuing SLOB — all but thwarting Miami’s comeback effort.