Los Angeles Lakers coach JJ Redick likes what he sees from Miami Heat point guard Tyler Herro. In fact, Redick acknowledged teams need to gameplan around Herro

Rui Hachimura scored 23 points and Anthony Davis had 22 points and 11 rebounds as the Los Angeles Lakers snapped a three-game skid with a 117-108 victory over the Miami Heat on Wednesday night.

Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro tweaked his game this season in order to take more threes and fewer midrange attempts to replicate 10-time NBA All-Star Stephen Curry’s shot profile. It has resulted in the best season of Herro’s career and serious consideration for his first NBA All-Star Game appearance.

The runway has been his the entire season, with Jimmy Butler nearly as often away as present, with Bam Adebayo uneven off the offensive end. So it hasn’t just been Tyler Herro seizing a

Trailing by 14 points against a Miami team that beat them by 41 points a month ago, the Lakers clawed their way back in the second half to snap a three-game losing streak, beating the Heat 117-108 at Crypto.

The Miami Heat are not letting the trade rumors surrounding Jimmy Butler affect their performance on the court.

Tyler Herro shot 7 for 12 from 3-point ... Two other three-game skids came when Los Angeles went 2-7 from Nov. 21-Dec. 6. The Lakers' Jaxson Hayes came away with a steal, fed the ball to Reaves ...

LeBron James will be representing the Lakers at the NBA All-Star Game after being selected for an unprecedented 21st time on Thursday.

James — a pick for 21 straight years — now has two more selections than anyone else in NBA history (Abdul-Jabbar was a 19-time pick) and is three years clear of anyone else for the longest streak of consecutive selections. Kobe Bryant was picked for 18 consecutive games, the second-longest such streak.

From Celtics vs. Lakers to Thunder vs. Mavericks, tonight’s 9-game NBA slate promises action-packed matchups with playoff implications.

For the Miami Heat, it was a stupor-like daze in the wake of yet another Jimmy Butler suspension, personified by the end of the first half in the 125-96 loss, the team’s fifth in their last six games.