Memphis Grizzlies – Miami Heat · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 3 April 2025

MEM110–108MIA

Is it worth watching?

Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 95% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes
· The win probability swung between the two teams 47 times
· It stayed close for almost the whole game

It measures how much the win probability moved during the game —without looking at who won or at the score— and compares it with the 10,950 NBA games with a curve since 2017. “Highly recommended” is the most intense 20%, “recommended” runs from 50% to 80%, and “skippable” is the rest. Source: ESPN.

↑ MIA winsMEM wins ↓

Home team's win probability across the game (source: ESPN). The band rises when MIA leads and falls when MEM does.

This is how the game was decided.

Ja Morant decided it, the Memphis Grizzlies player with the most points (30, with 5 rebounds and 3 assists; +3 with him on the floor); the winner's best plus-minus was Jaren Jackson Jr.'s (+5). The criterion: the winner's points in the box score; plus-minus says who was on the floor when the game opened up.

The game-winner in Miami Heat 108-110 Memphis Grizzlies (April 3, 2025) was hit by Ja Morant: a jump shot with 0.0 s left in the fourth quarter, putting the Memphis Grizzlies up 110-108. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Miami Heat 108-110 Memphis Grizzlies (April 3, 2025) was a 9-0 run by the Miami Heat in the first quarter (from 11:38 to 10:24), from 0-0 to 9-0. The Memphis Grizzlies' best was a 9-0 run in the second quarter (from 5:22 to 3:39), from 35-39 to 44-39.

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Play: Ja Morant makes 9-foot two point shot.

I count as the game-winner the basket that puts the winning team ahead for good. Source: the official NBA play-by-play (since 2002-03) and each team's official box scores.

A run here is consecutive points by one team without the opponent scoring. Source: the official NBA play-by-play (since 2002-03) and each team's official box scores.

Source: the game's official box score and play-by-play.

Ja Morant decided this game: his points put his team ahead at the buzzer of the fourth quarter, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 7 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Morant decided

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A game is decided by the last basket that puts a team ahead in the final ten seconds of the fourth quarter or of an overtime, if that team wins.

3 April 2025 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401705680:694; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · MEM

Jackson · Bane · Morant · Aldama · Pippen

Closing lineup · MIA

Ware · Adebayo · Larsson · Mitchell · Highsmith

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MEM

Jaren Jackson Jr.

37′ · +5

Desmond Bane

36′ · -1

Ja Morant

32′ · +3

Zach Edey

28′ · +2

Jaylen Wells

26′ · +4

Santi Aldama

30′ · -4

Scotty Pippen Jr.

27′ · 0

Luke Kennard

22′ · 0

Lamar Stevens

2′ · +1

MIA

Tyler Herro

37′ · +1

Kel'el Ware

35′ · +1

Bam Adebayo

34′ · -5

Pelle Larsson

23′ · -7

Alec Burks

16′ · 0

Davion Mitchell

37′ · +3

Haywood Highsmith

26′ · -5

Kyle Anderson

20′ · +2

Duncan Robinson

11′ · 0

Each bar is a stint on the floor (source: NBA). The number is minutes played and the team's +/− with him on the court. MEM and MIA.

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Memphis Grizzlies

Jackson, Morant, Bane, Edey, and Wells played 10.0 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Kennard, Bane, Aldama, Pippen, and Edey played 7.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.
Jackson, Morant, Pippen, Edey, and Wells played 6.0 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.

Miami Heat

Adebayo, Herro, Larsson, Ware, and Burks played 10.0 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.
Adebayo, Robinson, Highsmith, Mitchell, and Anderson played 9.9 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Adebayo, Herro, Mitchell, Larsson, and Ware played 6.3 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 5 points.

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Memphis Grizzlies

Jackson, Morant, Bane, Aldama, and Pippen played 4.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Kennard, Jackson, Morant, Aldama, and Wells played 4.0 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Kennard, Jackson, Bane, Aldama, and Pippen played 3.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Jackson, Morant, Bane, Aldama, and Wells played 3.7 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Kennard, Jackson, Morant, Bane, and Aldama played 2.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Kennard, Jackson, Bane, Pippen, and Edey played 2.2 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Kennard, Stevens, Bane, Aldama, and Pippen played 1.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.

Miami Heat

Highsmith, Herro, Mitchell, Ware, and Burks played 4.2 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 4 points.
Highsmith, Herro, Mitchell, Ware, and Anderson played 3.5 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 3 points.
Highsmith, Herro, Mitchell, Larsson, and Ware played 3.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 7 points.
Adebayo, Highsmith, Herro, Mitchell, and Anderson played 2.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Herro, Mitchell, Larsson, Ware, and Anderson played 2.4 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Adebayo, Herro, Mitchell, Ware, and Burks played 2.0 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Adebayo, Highsmith, Herro, Mitchell, and Ware played 1.6 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Adebayo, Herro, Larsson, Ware, and Anderson played 1.0 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.

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The lineups come from the NBA's official rotation: who was on the floor and when. Each lineup's plus-minus is worked out from every player's stints and is only shown when they all add up with each other and with the final score.

Tyler Herro covered 4.92 km, more than anyone in the game.

Desmond Bane touched the ball 78 times, a game high.
Davion Mitchell made 52 passes, a game high.
Kel'el Ware defended 7 shots at the rim, a game high, and opponents made 4.

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Memphis Grizzlies

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Desmond Bane	4.73	7.3	78	50
Jaren Jackson Jr.	4.36	6.6	36	19
Ja Morant	3.89	6.7	68	38
Santi Aldama	3.88	7.2	46	37
Scotty Pippen Jr.	3.57	7.5	47	33
Jaylen Wells	3.43	7.4	24	13
Zach Edey	3.38	6.9	27	20
Luke Kennard	2.98	7.5	18	14
Lamar Stevens	0.26	8.5	2	2

Miami Heat

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Tyler Herro	4.92	7.4	70	39
Davion Mitchell	4.65	7.0	65	52
Kel'el Ware	4.26	6.7	47	34
Bam Adebayo	3.96	6.5	68	38
Haywood Highsmith	3.57	7.6	30

The figures come from the NBA's optical tracking (NBA.com) for this game; speed is each player's average while on the floor.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2024-25 regular season, not this game.

Memphis Grizzlies

Jaren Jackson Jr. defended 4.7 shots at the rim per game over his 73 games, and opponents made 14 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 4 of 138 in the league.
Zach Edey contested 7.7 shots per game over his 65 games.
He ranks 27 of 388 in the league.
Scotty Pippen Jr. deflected 2.7 passes per game over his 79 games.
He ranks 33 of 388 in the league.

Miami Heat

Bam Adebayo deflected 3.1 passes per game over his 78 games.
He ranks 19 of 388 in the league.
Davion Mitchell drew 0.14 charges per game over his 71 games.
He ranks 23 of 388 in the league.
Duncan Robinson drew 0.11 charges per game over his 72 games.
He ranks 32 of 388 in the league.

Hustle figures come from the hustle stats the NBA publishes (NBA.com) and rim defense comes from its tracking; both cover the regular season. For each player in this game we show the figure that ranks him highest in the league, and for each team, the three best ranked. Ranks count players with at least 30 games and, at the rim, at least 4 defended shots per game.

The Miami Heat have won 24 of their 49 games against the Memphis Grizzlies.

24-25record of the Miami Heat · NBA 2001-02 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 2001-02 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

19.700

100.5% of capacity

Kaseya Center · Miami

Scoring

218

combined points

9.7 below the season average (227.7)

⚖️ The last two minutes

Official NBA L2M report: every call in the endgame, reviewed by the league.

9 calls reviewed1 errors admitted by the NBA

Stoppage: Out-of-Bounds · 00:21.7

Scotty Pippen Jr. → Kel'el Ware

Ware (MIA) is the last player to touch the ball before it goes out of bounds and Memphis should have been awarded with possession.