"For nearly three quarters on Saturday night at American Airlines Arena, the Sixers matched the Heat step for step. But when rookie Nikola Vucevic took a bad step and fell to a heap on the baseline beneath the basket, the Sixers' chances folded up too.

Vucevic scored 13 points and grabbed nine rebounds while battling veterans Joel Anthony, Chris Bosh and Udonis Haslem in the paint for three quarters. With second-year guard Evan Turner coming off the bench to score 14 points in the first half, the Sixers' past two first-round draft picks gave the defending Eastern Conference champions all they could handle.

But without Vucevic for the final 17 minutes of the game, the Sixers ran out of gas in the 113-92 defeat."