ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Anothert Heat-Magic game, another late comeback.
And this one went Miami's way.
On Saturday, it was Orlando with the rally to beat Miami. On Thursday, on the same court, it was the Heat who found a way at the end to beat the Magic.
Tyler Herro's jumper with a half-second left gave Miami an 89-88 victory on Thursday night — a game that came less than a week after the Heat wasted a 22-point, fourth-quarter lead and lost to the Magic.
“Just got to my spot,” Herro said.
Miami trailed 71-61 going into the fourth quarter Thursday. It was the first time — spanning 74 games — that the Heat rallied from double digits down entering the final quarter of a regular-season game and won since Oct. 26, 2019, at Milwaukee.
“I don't know if it was our best win this year,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “But it was definitely our toughest win this season.”
The last Orlando-Miami game ended with the Magic on a big run. And on Thursday, the Magic started the rematch with another flurry.
The Magic scored the first 14 points of Thursday's game against the Heat, coming on the heels of Orlando outscoring Miami 37-8 in the fourth quarter of their matchup on Saturday — a huge rally that capped a comeback from as much as a 25-point deficit.
Add up the fourth quarter Saturday and the start on Thursday, and it was a 51-8 Orlando run over about 17 minutes of game time — separated by a few days, of course. The 14-0 run was Orlando's biggest to start a game since it took a 15-0 lead to open things against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on Jan. 4, 2001.
Miami closed the gap Thursday to 31-22 by the end of the first quarter. The Heat trailed most of the way Thursday, but found a way at the end — thanks in large part to 23 turnovers that led to 25 Miami points.
“That's the game right there,” Magic coach Jamahl Mosley said.
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Orlando Magic head coach Jamahl Mosley reacts as his team plays the Miami Heat during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Kevin Kolczynski)
Miami Heat guard Alec Burks, left, congratulates guard Tyler Herro, right, who hit the winning 2-point basket against the Orlando Magic during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Kevin Kolczynski)
Orlando Magic players from left, Jonathan Isaac (1), Cory Joseph, Trevelin Queen (12) and Tristan da Silva (23) celebrate a win during the final moments an NBA basketball game against the Miami Heat, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
NEW YORK (AP) — Avicii, the groundbreaking Swedish DJ-producer, died six years ago at 28. Two new movies hitting Netflix next week aim to celebrate his life.
His death was a tragedy that reverberated around the world — much like his music, which brought unexpected genres and collaborators into his melodic EDM through forward-thinking, chart-topping hits like “Wake Me Up!” and “Hey Brother.”
A short concert film captured at what became his final performance, “Avicii — My Last Show,” and a full-length documentary, “Avicii — I’m Tim,” will premiere Tuesday on Netflix. They work to celebrate the artist born Tim Bergling, capturing his early life, the songs that made him an idiosyncratic talent, his insatiable curiosity and hunger for reinvention, and the people he left behind.
Miraculously, Avicii himself narrates a lot of the film — pulled from archival interviews and some never before published.
Capturing Avicii's life and career was no easy feat, director Henrik Burman told The Associated Press. The project took half a decade, beginning before the pandemic and not long after the DJ's death. Burman's interviews were long and many. “To know people around Tim,” he says, was the only way “to know Tim.”
Burman discussed Avicii's life, career and legacy with the AP. This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
BURMAN: I would say from the beginning, the first thing I knew I wanted to do was find my story ... the story that I wanted to tell about Tim. But the most important (aspect) was time. I wanted this to be a project with no time limits ... I wanted it to be a slow process. And I wanted to have a lot of time for research. And the people close to Tim, I didn't want to force them into anything. I didn't want to push it. I wanted them to see and learn what I wanted to tell, you know, my story and my vision.
BURMAN: I had access to a lot of material ... I was looking for clues all the time ... I’ve watched so, so many hours of, you know, interviews with Tim just to see, “OK, he says this again. And it was like the eighth time that year. OK. That should be important.” ... It was kind of a puzzle and yeah, it was huge research work.
Sometimes, in the material that I had ... he was like, “If there’s a documentary, ever, about me, this should be in it.” ... There’s a story in the film, in the beginning, from where he is a kid. He tells a story to the interviewer. And he says, “When I was a kid, I wasn’t like a really nice person. For a few years, I was kind of bullying people. And I was around 6 or 7. And after a while I realized that people didn’t like me, so after a summer, I was thinking about this, and I decided, ‘I need to change ... and see what happens.’ And then people liked me again.” And when he told that story, he was like, “That’s a really important story. That’s a story that needs to be in a documentary, if it’s ever a documentary about me, because that says so much about me as a person.”
I was trying to find clues and stories and listen and ... early on, I was quite sure that I wanted to tell the story from Miami Ultra (Music Festival) and what happened there. That was kind of a key moment for me, and that was a huge key moment for Tim. But when I realized that this ... needs to be the center of my story, at the midpoint for my story, I realized that I had something to hold on to.
BURMAN: That is hard. I have from the beginning ... tried to explain my vision for this film ... But I reached out to a lot of friends, and of course his family, and I got their blessing.
When I got this kind of group of people that said yes to being in the film that I could start to ask more questions and have deeper conversations. But again, we needed time ... I wanted to work gently, that was very important.
BURMAN: I wanted to make an intimate and personal story and not speculate ... to find the right tone, you need time. And since we started work ... one, one-and-a-half years after Tim passed, I just knew that we needed time. And, of course, people around Tim needed a lot of time.
BURMAN: You can answer that question in so many ways. But if you’re talking about the music, and the music that he produced and wrote, he was so much ahead of his time, I would say. And you can hear the legacy of Avicii in the music today. You can hear it in the production in new music and hits from today. If you listen to the music — go back and listen to the music now that he released like 10 years ago, it sounds so fresh, modern, and I would say timeless.
BURMAN: Someone said to me that the film is so much about Tim, but at the same time, it’s so kind of universal. And I thought that was beautiful because life is not simple. There are no easy answers. And everything is complex and multilayered. So, that’s what I aim to contribute to Tim's story. And I also really hope that even the most hardcore fans get a new, fresh perspective of Tim as a person and Avicii as an artist.
FILE - Avicii poses for a portrait in New York, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)
FILE - Avicii poses for a portrait in New York, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)
This image released by Netflix shows a scene from "Avicii - I'm Tim," the story of Tim Bergling. (Netflix via AP)
This image released by Netflix shows a scene from "Avicii - I'm Tim," the story of Tim Bergling. (Netflix via AP)
