Miami Heat at Milwaukee Bucks

Jimmy Butler wins it at buzzer, Heat top Bucks 116-114

Only there was no goalie.

This was just a free throw, no time on the clock, nobody else from the Miami Heat or Milwaukee Bucks standing along the lane. Game tied, two chances to make one shot, the outcome completely in Butler's hands.

"I wish I could kick it in there and say that's how I won it," Butler said.

Butler was fouled by Giannis Antetokounmpo with no time remaining, the referees said, a call that was affirmed in a review after the initial whistle. The ball was out of Butler's hands when Antetokounmpo clearly made contact.

"I'd say we're disappointed with the judgment, the decision, the timing," Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said.

It was a bizarre ending to, well, a bizarre ending.

"I feel like, personally, it was the right play," Antetokounmpo said.

Then came the whistle, and that was that. Milwaukee couldn't challenge the call; the Bucks used their review to overturn what would have been Antetokounmpo's fourth foul on a charging call into Butler early in the fourth quarter.

"In the judgment of the officials, the foul occurred, I guess, at some point when he landed," Budenholzer said. "In the judgment of the officials, there was enough to warrant a foul."

"Doesn't take a genius to know that we were going to try to get that ball in Jimmy's mitts and see what can happen from there," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "He was very patient. There were four seconds left. I think a lot of players would have rushed. He took his time."

Antetokounmpo had 29 points and 14 rebounds for the Bucks. Middleton scored 23 points for Milwaukee, which got 16 apiece from Lopez and Eric Bledsoe and 14 from George Hill.

Middleton was fouled on a 3-point try, made the first two free throws and the rebound of the third was controlled by the Bucks. Kyle Korver made a 3-pointer off that rebound to cap a five-point possession for Milwaukee, which had the lead again for the first time since 14-13.

The Heat were undeterred. They scored 13 of the next 15 points to not only reclaim the lead but push it to 103-93 on a 3-pointer by Crowder with 7:50 left.

They wouldn't trail again.

"You can't relax, you can't get comfortable," Butler said. "They're too good of a team."

TIP-INS

Heat: Dragic has scored at least 20 points in six consecutive playoff games. It's the 12th such streak in Heat history; Dwyane Wade had six, LeBron James had the other five. ... Andre Iguodala left in the third quarter with a sprained right ankle, which he turned when he didn't have space to land and came down on Korver's foot.

Bucks: Antetokounmpo, who was 4 for 12 from the foul line in Game 1, started 4 for 5 from the stripe in Game 2. He finished 9 for 13. ... Milwaukee outrebounded Miami 50-38.

FOULING ON 3'S

The Heat fouled the Bucks five times on 3-point tries in the game, including twice against Lopez in a 26-second span of the first quarter.

5 OVER 1

UP NEXT

Game 3 is Friday.

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Regular Season Series

MIA wins series 2-1