Porter, Portis and Rollins power the Bucks to a 128-117 win over the Heat

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Kevin Porter Jr. matched his season high with 32 points and Bobby Portis and Ryan Rollins scored 21 apiece as the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Miami Heat 128-117 on Tuesday night for their fourth win in five games.

Kyle Kuzma added 19 points and Ousmane Dieng 11 for the Bucks.

Norman Powell scored 26 points, Bam Adebayo finished with 18 points and nine rebounds and Andrew Wiggins had 16 points for the Heat, who had their three-game winning streak halted.

Tyler Herro and Kel’el Ware each scored 14 points and Pelle Larsson 10 for Miami. Davion Mitchell, who returned after missing a game due to illness, added eight points and eight assists.

Milwaukee held a 63-58 advantage at the half before the teams exchanged leads in the third. Miami held a 93-89 advantage heading into the final period.

Ware’s 3-pointer early in the fourth gave Miami a nine-point lead, its largest to that point. The Bucks battled back, quickly cutting their deficit to 102-100 on a 3-pointer by Portis before Milwaukee moved ahead 103-102 when Dieng hit from long distance.

The back-and-forth battle continued throughout the quarter with Milwaukee taking a 118-116 lead when Porter sank a 3-pointer from the corner while drawing a foul and sinking the free throw. Back-to-back baskets by Rollins with a just over one minute remaining sealed the victory.

The Bucks led 30-29 after one quarter, paced by Kuzman’s 13 points.

Miami scored 16 points off 11 Bucks turnovers, and Milwaukee managed just 11 points on 16 Heat turnovers.

Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo missed his 12th consecutive game since straining his right calf on Jan. 23. The Bucks are 15-15 with Antetokounmpo and 10-16 without him this season.

Nikola Jovic (back) missed his second straight game for the Heat. He traveled with the team to Milwaukee, but returned to Miami on Tuesday for treatment.

Heat: At the Philadelphia 76ers on Thursday.

Bucks: Host the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday.

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Miami Heat's Norman Powell (24) drives to the basket against Milwaukee Bucks' AJ Green during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)

Miami Heat's Kel'el Ware (7) dunks over Milwaukee Bucks' Jericho Sims and Ryan Rollins during the second half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)

Milwaukee Bucks' Cam Thomas (24) looks to shoot past Miami Heat's Andrew Wiggins during the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)

Milwaukee Bucks' Bobby Portis, left, drives to the basket against Miami Heat's Kasparas Jakučionis during the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)

Milwaukee Bucks' Kevin Porter Jr. (7) drives to the basket against Miami Heat's Pelle Larsson during the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Andrei Lankov, a prominent Russian scholar on North Korea who teaches at a Seoul university, said he was expelled from Latvia after being detained during a lecture in the country’s capital.

In a text message Wednesday, Lankov said Latvian police did not provide a reason for his detention late Tuesday in Riga, where he was delivering a lecture on North Korea. He was later turned over to immigration authorities and taken to the border with Estonia, according to the professor and his school.

“They basically expelled me from the country, and it was all,” Lankov said, without elaborating further.

Officials at South Korea’s Kookmin University, where Lankov is a professor of history, said they confirmed he had been released and was headed to Estonia.

The Russian business news outlet RBK reported earlier that Latvian authorities had placed Lankov on a blacklist. Lankov told the outlet he was still being held around 11 p.m. Moscow time, adding that lawyers were working on his case and friends were helping with logistics.

A native of Leningrad, now called St. Petersburg, Lankov lived for years in North Korea as an exchange student in the 1980s and has studied the country throughout his career. In the 1990s, he worked in South Korea and Australia, and since 2004 has taught in Seoul. He holds dual Russian and Australian citizenship.

Lankov has been known for his cool, realist view of North Korea, which he often describes as a Machiavellian regime squeezing limited resources and manipulating major powers to ensure its survival. He has also expressed critical views of Russia’s war in Ukraine and Moscow’s use of North Korean troops to sustain its campaign.

In April 2025, a court in Moscow reportedly fined him 10,000 rubles ($130) for taking part in the activities of an organization that had been recognized as “undesirable” in Russia. Lankov told RBK at the time that he learned about the case from journalists.

__ AP writer Lynn Berry contributed from Washington.

FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2017, photo, Andrei Lankov, a North Korea expert at Kookmin University answers a reporter's question during an interview in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)