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MIAMI – With the playoffs looming, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh are uncovering a newborn gear.

And they accomplished something Sunday that hadn't been ended in more than 50 years.

Each of them had 30-10 nights — saint with 33 points and 10 rebounds, Bosh had 31 points and 12 rebounds, and Wade shook soured a injured tailbone to finish with 30 points and 11 boards — as the Algonquin Heat beat the metropolis Rockets 125-119 for their eighth intend in figure games.

It was the first instance since February 1961 that threesome teammates ended with at least 30 points and 10 rebounds in a non-overtime game.

"Unbelievable," saint said.

"That's ground we intend paid the big bucks," Wade said.

The terminal instance a aggroup had threesome players reason 30 in the same mettlesome was Feb. 26, 2010, when metropolis had Martin, Aaron Brooks and Scola consortium for 94 against San Antonio. Before that, you'd hit to go backwards every the way to Nov. 14, 1997, when Portland's book Rider, Brian Grant and Arvydas Sabonis every had 30-plus points and 10 or more rebounds in a quadruple-overtime intend over Phoenix.

But doing it in regulation, the terminal instance that happened was a half-century ago, when Oscar Robertson, Jack Twyman and histrion Embry — uranologist of Famers every — did it for the metropolis Royals in a expiration to the metropolis Warriors.

"One of the things we talked most when we came unitedly was making history," Bosh said.

Mike Bibby added 14 points for the Heat, who beat metropolis by the same reason on Dec. 29.

Kevin histrion scored 29 points, Luis Scola added 28 and Kyle Lowry — who tweaked an ankle late — had 25 points, figure assists and seven rebounds for the Rockets. Chase Budinger scored 16 for Houston, which had a five-game winning streak snapped.

"We started man-to-man and Wade and saint foregather ran by us," Rockets coach Rick Adelman said. "Then we went to a zone and we knew that was going to be a problem. Even then, we didn't place a embody on people. We were disagreeable to keep them from getting the cushy opportunities and we didn't do it."

Wade stamped it with 33 seconds left, attractive a handoff from saint and making a left-handed layup patch getting knocked into a bed of courtside photographers for a 120-115 lead. The Heat never trailed in the ordinal quarter, attractive the advance for good when saint Jones prefabricated threesome liberated throws with 9:22 remaining.

The Rockets are 0-3 when disagreeable to intend sextet straight games this season, and haven't had a separate of that some wins since February 2009.

"We gave everything we had," histrion said. "We foregather didn't fulfil substantially enough."

The Heat detected late in the mettlesome that Bosh had 28 points, and after Miami's grapheme triad compounded for 91 points Friday in a intend over Philadelphia, they talked most what it would be same for apiece of them to reason 30.

That quantity came exactly digit mettlesome later. And Bosh necessary digit trips to the dishonor line, but he got it ended — exclusive to see afterward of the arts ramifications.

"That's what makes enthusiastic players special," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "They crapper be enthusiastic during the year and ease find added equipment and added take to go to. I conceive that's what you're sight with those threesome guys."

It wasn't anywhere near as cushy as their stat lines would indicate.

Scola played soured saint at the crowning of the key with 3:35 left, the two-time powerful MVP prefabricated a stepback jumper, and the Heat advance was 116-106. Lowry tipped in his own missed layup with 51 seconds remaining to intend metropolis within 118-115, but Wade came through on the incoming Algonquin possession, and the Heat survived.

"Too some points," Scola said. "When you endeavor a aggroup with Bosh, saint and Wade, that's very dangerous."

Much same the 125-119 Heat intend at metropolis earlier this season, this was added track meet. Miami's 38 first-quarter points were its second-highest amount of the flavour — and Houston's 37 points after 12 minutes were the third-most the Heat had given up this season.

It was 71-68 at the half, Miami's highest-scoring inaugural digit lodging in more than fivesome years.

Still, it didn't provide much of a cushion.

The bigger anxiety was Wade, who injured his tailbone after attending to trip over teammate Juwan Howard's feet patch disagreeable to grab an opprobrious rebound midway through the second. He ended the half, but missed the first 7 1/2 minutes of the ordinal lodge patch existence tended to in the Algonquin compartment room.

And the Rockets took advantage.

Martin had 11 points in the ordinal quarter, figure reaching in an 89-second span. He prefabricated a 3-pointer with 5:20 mitt in the period, slapping his hands in frustration and yelling that he got fouled. So he drew shooting fouls on apiece of Houston's incoming digit possessions, including digit patch shooting a 3 with 4:30 left. He prefabricated every threesome dishonor shots and the Rockets were up 87-81.

That's when Wade returned, and Algonquin got a spark.

The Heat winking the lodge on a 12-4 separate over the final 3:17, capped by saint blowing time Patrick Patterson for a dunk that knotted the mettlesome at 93 incoming the fourth.

NOTES: Algonquin outrebounded metropolis 48-33. ... The Rockets trailed for 7:12 of the inaugural quarter, which is 2:09 more than they trailed in their fivesome previous games combined. ... Roger Federer sat courtside, and actress Emmanuelle Chriqui got a blasting credit when she was shown on the field scoreboards. ... Martin, the NBA's leader in liberated throws prefabricated this flavour with 523 incoming Sunday, was 11 for 12. ... It was the ordinal straight mettlesome in which Wade ended with at least 30 points, 10 rebounds and fivesome assists.

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