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MIAMI — Observations and other notes of interest from Monday night’s 130-128 victory over the Atlanta Hawks:

MIAMI — The Miami Heat have a Tyler Herro problem. And yet that doesn’t mean that Tyler Herro is the problem.

MIAMI — There is something particularly honorable about a professional sports team overachieving. It is a way of telling fans that no matter what appears to be missing, there is a willingness to go above and beyond.

It required a top all-round effort by Jimmy Butler on Monday to keep Miami Heat in front and win 101-99 in the end at Philadelphia 76ers.

Five takeaways from the Miami Heat’s 112-108 loss to the Denver Nuggets (40-18) on Monday night at Miami-Dade Arena. The Heat (32-26) now travels to face the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday before heading into the All-Star break:

It could be argued that on the quietest of NBA trade deadlines for the Miami Heat that they actually pushed all of their chips to the middle of the table.

The exercise ahead of the NBA trading deadline, which this season comes at 3 p.m. Thursday, typically is to get a read on what a team is looking to add.

MIAMI — In the end perhaps it makes perfect sense for the Miami Heat. Late-arriving crowds; games decided in the closing ticks.

MIAMI — The Heat have a tall task in front of them on Friday night.

MIAMI — No, not a complete game, something that was shuffled out of the equation considering the missing bodies on both sides.

By doing anything and everything required, Max Strus carved out an NBA career from starting in Division II in college, going undrafted out of DePaul, being let go by the Boston Celtics and Chicago Bulls, fighting back from Dec. 2019 knee surgery and emerging from a two-way contract..