Heat’s 10-game win streak snapped by Pistons

MIAMI: With star guard Dwyane Wade sidelined by sore knees, the reigning NBA champion Miami Heat saw their 10-game win streak snapped yesterday, falling to the Detroit Pistons 107-97.
Kyle Singler’s 18 points led seven double-figure scorers for the Pistons while Greg Monroe and Rodney Stuckey each added 16 points and Brandon Jennings and Josh Smith both scored 15 points for Detroit.
The Heat had not lost since Boston won at Miami on November 9 on Jeff Green’s 3-pointer at the buzzer.
LeBron James and Michael Beasley each scored 23 points to pace the Heat, who had won 14 of their previous 16 meetings with the Pistons.
Andre Drummond scored 10 points and grabbed 18 rebounds and the Pistons took full advantage of 11 steals, four from Jennings, to produce 29 points off 19 Heat turnovers. The Heat trailed 82-68 entering the fourth quarter and fell behind by as many as 17 points before pulling within 91-88 on a James slam dunk. But James and Chris Bosh each missed potential tying 3-point shots and Miami went nearly four minutes without making a shot from the field, falling behind 98-91 and coming no closer the rest of the way.
Bosh added 14 points and Ray Allen 12 for Miami, which was kept to only 43.9 percent shooting from the field for the game.
Meanwhile, Anthony Davis, the top scorer and rebounder for the New Orleans Pelicans, will be sidelined for the next four to six weeks with a broken left hand, the NBA club announced yesterday. Davis suffered the injury Sunday in the first quarter of the Pelicans’ 103-99 victory over the New York Knicks.
Doctors diagnosed Davis with a non-displaced fracture of his fifth metacarpal on the left hand.
Davis was the top pick in last year’s NBA Draft and a member of the US Olympic squad that captured gold at the London Olympics. Davis was leading the Pelicans with 19.6 points, 10.6 rebounds and an NBA-best 3.9 blocked shots per game.
The injury timetable should mean Davis will miss between 12 and 20 games for the Pelicans, who are 9-8 and level for ninth in the Western Conference, where only three of 15 teams have a losing record. Agencies