This was not as forecast. It could not have been. Not this 130-117 Miami Heat victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday night at Fiserv Forum. The teams are now one game into their best-of-seven opening-round Eastern Conference playoff series, and already seemingly everything has changed. Bucks All-Star forward Giannis Antetokounmpo, the expected leading man in the series, was lost for the night in the first half with a back contusion that leaves his status in question. Then, before the end of the first half, the Heat likely lost starting guard Tyler Herro for the playoffs with a broken right hand, an injury expected to sidelined him from four to six weeks. “There were a lot of moving parts throughout the course of the game,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra understated. Before that attrition, the Heat, who barely survived the play-in round, needing a Friday night escape against the Chicago Bulls to survive, built an early 14-point first-quarter lead against the conference’s No.

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