When the Indiana Pacers and Miami Heat tangled in recent seasons, it was required viewing. Thomas Vermaelen Belgium Jersey . Catch all the action on TSN2 tonight at 7:30pm et/4:30pm pt One summer made the matchup a little less appealing, but the two squads will duke it out Wednesday night at AmericanAirlines Arena in South Beach. These two met in the Eastern Conference Finals the last two seasons and the series were entertaining. Everything changed this offseason. LeBron James left the Heat to try and save the city of Cleveland Cavaliers. Pat Riley and the Heat brass replaced him as best they could and the results have been solid. Miami is tied for the lead in the Southeast Division. The Pacers lost Lance Stephenson, a skilled play-maker, premiere defender and master agitator. Then, Paul Georges horrific leg injury with USA Basketball left the Pacers in shambles. Thats the nature of pro sports right now, is teams turn over very quickly, much more rapidly than it was 15, 20 years ago, certainly, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra told the Sun Sentinel. And you have to be able to adapt the best that you can in this business. So both teams look quite a bit different than they did in the Eastern Conference finals last year. The Heat have won two in a row after a pair of losses. The four-time reigning Eastern Conference champs dispatched the Minnesota Timberwolves at home on Friday, then earned a terrific victory Saturday night. Miami beat the Dallas Mavericks in Big D, 105-96. Luol Deng turned in his best game as a member of the Miami Heat, scoring 30 points. Dengs previous high this season was 18, but he filled it up against the Mavs as Miamis new Big Three all contributed to the victory. Dwyane Wade supplied 20 points with 10 assists and Chris Bosh posted 20 points and 10 rebounds for the Heat. We wanted to come up with a much tougher mindset to make plays and keep our head in the game collectively and just find a way to close out the game, said Spoelstra. The ball was moving and it was encouraging to see. The Pacers halted a six-game losing streak with a 97-86 home victory over the Utah Jazz on Monday night. Roy Hibbert scored a season-high 29 points two days after leaving a game with an injured knee. Hibbert scored 11 of his 29 points in the first quarter after suffering a knee bruise in the first quarter of Saturdays game against Washington. A.J. Price scored 22 points off the bench four days after the banged-up Pacers signed him to bolster their depleted backcourt. Price, who played his first three NBA seasons with the Pacers from 2009-12, made two 3-pointers during a 13-2 run in the fourth quarter that turned a three-point deficit into an eight-point lead. He obviously gave us a big-time lift tonight, said Pacers Frank Vogel, who expects the team to re-sign Price when his 10-day contract is up as long as the team still needs bodies. Solomon Hill added 13 points and Lavoy Allen scored 12 with a game-high 15 rebounds off the bench. The Pacers, who avoided what would have been their longest losing streak in five years, are still without David West, George Hill, CJ Watson and Rodney Stuckey. CJ Miles missed the last two with a migraine. The home team has won the last nine regular-season meetings between these two. Indiana has lost six in a row and is 2-13 in its last 15 regular-season matchups down in South Beach. Houston Rockets vs. Minnesota Timberwolves The NBA will put its product on the line tonight in the Mexico City Arena, where the Houston Rockets and Minnesota Timberwolves will tip off in the leagues expanded NBA Global Games schedule. Catch all the action tonight on TSN2 at 10pm et/7pm pt We are very proud to once again represent the NBA in Mexico, said Timberwolves President Chris Wright. This is a great opportunity for the NBA and the Minnesota Timberwolves to continue the incredible growth of our international fan base. The Mexico City fans were phenomenal last year and we look forward to visiting them again this season. The Timberwolves were scheduled to play the San Antonio Spurs in Mexico City, Mexico last season, but the game was postponed because of smoky conditions inside the arena. A generator malfunction sent smoke pouring into the building and the arena was evacuated about 45 minutes prior to tip off. The last regular-season NBA game in Mexico was on Dec. 6, 1997, when the Rockets beat the Dallas Mavericks. Minnesota is 2-4 on the season and went 1-2 on a recent road trip, which culminated with Saturdays 102-92 loss at Miami. Nikola Pekovic posted 19 points and 11 rebounds, and Thaddeus Young supplied 16 points and six boards for Minnesota, which was without its young point guard Ricky Rubio for the first time this season. Rubio is dealing with an ankle injury. We battled, Wolves coach Flip Saunders said. We got a couple of groups together that played hard. That was a positive to build on. Rookie Andrew Wiggins scored 10 points in defeat. The Rockets started the season 6-0 and came back to earth with Saturdays 98-87 loss to the Golden State Warriors. The two teams were both undefeated. Stephen Curry scored 14 of his game-high 34 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Warriors, while James Harden paced the Rockets with 22 points and Isaiah Canaan ended with 21. Terrence Jones (leg) missed his third straight game, Patrick Beverley (hamstring) has been held out in four of five games and Dwight Howard was a late scratch with flu-like symptoms. Tonight was just a tough game in general missing three of our starters, Harden said. Jones and Beverly are still out and Howard should be back Wednesday. Howard is posting an average of 19.7 points and 11.5 rebounds. Houston went 3-1 against Minnesota last season and has won 20 of the past 26 matchups with the T-Wolves. Vincent Kompany Jersey . Alen, 28, hit .315 with five home runs, 59 RBI and a career-high nine stolen bases for the Goldeyes last season. He is the longest serving catcher in Goldeyes history, having already spent five seasons with the organization. Koen Casteels Jersey . "Weve given ourselves now a tougher task," said Carlyle after the Friday practice, the Toronto head coach notably chipper and upbeat throughout. "But the bottom line is we just have to win our share of games [and] not worry about what anybody else is doing. http://www.soccerbelgiumteamonline.com/Michy-Batshuayi-UEFA-European-Belgium-Jersey/ . General manager David Poile called signing Ribeiro a great opportunity to add a talented, experienced and creative centre Tuesday when he introduced the veteran at a news conference. Ribeiros contract is worth $1.05 million after being bought out of the final three years of a $22 million contract by the Coyotes recently. KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Georges Niang walked off the floor in the closing minutes with a bloody towel pressed tightly to his forehead, pumping his fist and riling up the Iowa State fans in the Sprint Center. Turns out he was just jumpstarting the celebration. Niang scored 25 points before leaving with that gash above his right eye, and the No. 16 Cyclones held on down the stretch to beat No. 10 Kansas 94-83 Friday night and reach their first Big 12 tournament title game since 2000. "We love competing for championships," Niang said later, a bandage over his wound. "Coach says take it one day at a time, but the Big 12 championship is one day away from us." DeAndre Kane had five 3-pointers and scored 20 points, and Big 12 player of the year Melvin Ejim added 19 points for the fourth-seeded Cyclones (25-8), who will play for just their second tournament title Saturday night against the winner of Texas-Baylor. The victory for Iowa State represented its first in four tries against Kansas in the Big 12 tournament, and its first over the Jayhawks in Kansas City since March 10, 1996, when the schools were still part of the Big Eight. It also allowed Iowa State to match its 2001 team for the second-most wins in school history, trailing only the 32 wins piled up by the 2000 team. Incidentally, it was that team that won the Cyclones only Big 12 tournament title. "Its a great win for us, for the fact it gives us confidence we can compete with anyone in the nation," Cyclones coach Fred Hoiberg said. "It was good to finally get one of these after struggling to close out games against Kansas the past few years." Relying on some hot outside shooting, Iowa State took charge in the second half, and then held on as the top-seeded Jayhawks (24-9) tried to make a late run to get back into the game. Perry Ellis led Kansas with 30 points. Andrew Wiggins finished with 22. The Jayhawks again were playing without 7-footer Joel Embiid, the leagues defensive player of the year, and his rim-protecting presence was sorely missed. The freshman has a stress fracture in his back and is likely out until at least the second weekend of the NCAA tournament. "Joel not being in there, he could probably guard Niang better," Kaansas coach Bill Self said, "but I think it was more a collection of everybody rather than just one individual. Dedryck Boyata Belgium Jersey. " The Sprint Center was packed to the rafters with fans eager to see whether Iowa State could finally end its five-game losing streak against the Jayhawks, or whether Kansas could burnish what it hoped would be a resume worthy of a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament. The teams got after it right from the tip, racing up and down the floor in what amounted to a series of 94-foot wind sprints. Iowa State got the better of it early, forging a 23-16 lead, but the Jayhawks countered with a brutally efficient 20-3 charge to take control. Things got so intense that the normally placid Hoiberg was rung up with a technical foul after Kane appeared to be hammered on the way to the basket and no foul was called. "I used a bad word," Hoiberg said sheepishly. "Im not going to say I didnt." The Jayhawks lead was also short-lived. Kane started the comeback by converting a three-point play, Ejim and Niang went to work inside, and the Cyclones tied it 46-all in the closing minutes of the first half when Kane knocked down another shot from the corner. Their hot perimeter shooting continued in the second half, when the Cyclones turned a 48-46 deficit into a 66-57 lead, the last points in the run on a deep ball from Naz Long. By that point, Iowa State was 11 of 16 from the 3-point line. "We were on our heels defensively throughout the game," Ellis said. "I felt in the first half we did a lot better. In the second half, we let too many straight-line drives to the basket." The Jayhawks eventually extended their defence to the perimeter, and thats when Iowa State started going to the basket again. Niang scored four straight baskets for Iowa State during one stretch that made it 81-72, and scored on three straight trips to make it 86-74. The lead never got much smaller, even after Niang was whacked in the face during a scrum under the basket, prompting him to start the party for the Iowa State fans in attendance. "We felt like we had these guys in the second half," Niang said. "We came out and threw the first punch and from there it was clear skies." ' ' '