The Miami Heat were back home from Chicago more shorthanded than ever, thanks to Kirk Hinrich's dirty play, and were stopped by one of their own players while taking on the New Jersey Nets. The Nets won 91-81. 

Both teams came into the game missing key players. The Nets were missing Nenad Krstic, who is out for the year with a torn ACL, and soon-to-be 40-year-old Clifford Robinson, who has been out with a bad knee. Miami played without Shaquille O'Neal, Dwyane Wade who is still nursing a sprained wrist from Wednesday night's game in Chicago and James Posey who was serving a one game suspension for his flagrant foul on Luol Deng.

Jason Kapono filled in for D-Wade, but got off to a bad start. He missed his first couple of shots and quickly picked up two personal fouls. He was replaced by Antoine Walker, who actually made his first shot, but slowly reverted back to his old ways. More on him later.

Dorell Wright started the game like he was shot out of a cannon. Calling for the ball, and taking it hard to the rack, he quickly filled up his stat sheet with points, rebounds, blocks and steals. He finished the game with a career high in points (21) and blocks (6).

The Heat pounded the ball inside early and dominated the paint. They out rebounded and out scored New Jersey down low. Alonzo Mourning had a terrific first half and ended it with beautiful block on Vince Carter as time expired. He led Miami at the half with 12 points, as the Heat led 41-39.

In the third quarter the Nets turned things around. They switched to a zone defense and packed the paint with defenders. Miami couldn't score. They couldn't do anything. New Jersey was filling it up and went on a 21 to 0 run. They were shooting it at 83% in the quarter. Miami really missed Wade and looked confused. Coach Pat Riley called three timeouts all spaced about two minutes apart trying to keep the Heat in the game. The Heat went six minutes in the quarter without scoring.

The Heat were down by as many as 18, but would not be denied. Kapono started to heat up and made some highly contested jumpers to get Miami back in the game. Jwil pitched in with some 3's and drives to the basket. They cut the lead down to eight. It looked like they might have another comeback in them.

Little did the Heat know that on this night, they were playing four-on-six basketball, instead of the usual five-on-five. Antoine Walker proved to be too much for Miami. He was throwing the ball off teammate's finger tips, fouling defenders, passing up open shots, taking bad shots, getting called for offensive fouls. Walker was everywhere. He was basically unstoppable. When all was said and done, No. 8's damage was too much to overcome and the Heat just ran out of time. He finished with an unbelievable six turnovers and four personal fouls. Now that takes some serious skill.

The play of the game was when Josh Boone tried to dunk on Dorell Wright in the second quarter. Wright stuffed him and then stared him down, as Jwil got the rebound. Wright is a man.