MIAMI — Jaime Jaquez Jr. capped his sixth-man award candidacy by scoring 26 points off the bench, Bam Adebayo and Norman Powell each scored 25 and the Miami Heat tuned up for the play-in tournament by beating the Atlanta Hawks 143-117 on Sunday night.Kel’el Ware scored 16 points for Miami, which will need to win two road play-in games to make the playoffs. The Heat pulled off that feat as the No. 10 seed entering the play-in last season.Buddy Hield scored a game-high 31 points in just 21 minutes off the bench for Atlanta, which had a playoff spot locked up going into the game. Corey Kispert scored 21 and Asa Newell finished with 17 for the Hawks.Miami ended the season with a team-record 9,911 points.The Hawks — who risked falling to No. 6 in the East by sitting players, and that’s exactly what happened — decided to emphasize health and rest, so they sat Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Dyson Daniels, CJ McCollum, Jalen Johnson, Jonathan Kuminga and Onyeka Okongwu, among others.Atlanta could have been No. 5 had it won Sunday. The Hawks will play No. 3 New York and not No. 4 Cleveland in Round 1.“The focus for us has been on our guys going into the postseason healthy,” Hawks coach Quin …
