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 MIAMI (AP) - Even with Shaquille O'Neal bruised and out of the game, the Miami Heat ended their longest losing streak of the season — and finally beat the Indiana Pacers.
Eddie Jones scored 17 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Damon Jones added 16 points and all five Miami starters scored in double figures as the Heat knocked off the Pacers 84-80 on Sunday, ending a four-game losing skid and a 12-game regular-season drought against Indiana.
Shaquille O'Neal scored 11 points in 17 minutes, leaving shortly before halftime with a bruised right thigh — courtesy of an inadvertent kneeing by Jermaine O'Neal, the Pacers' All-Star forward who was activated before the game after missing Indiana's last 22 contests because of a shoulder injury.
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