Dwyane Wade had 27 points and 14 assists, Quentin Richardson scored a season-high 25 and the Miami Heat found a way to overcome a huge effort by Kobe Bryant to beat the visiting Los Angeles Lakers, 114-111, in overtime Thursday night.

Carlos Arroyo scored 17 points, Jermaine O'Neal scored 13 and Udonis Haslem had 12 for Miami, which won the NBA's most wildly back-and-forth game all season -- with a season-high 31 lead changes.

Bryant scored 39 points, including the overtime-forcing jumper for the Lakers, who got 14 points from Derek Fisher and 13 points from Lamar Odom.

It still was not enough, as the Heat was 4 for 4 from the field and 7 for 8 from the foul line in overtime.

O'Neal had the defensive play of the night with 18.7 seconds left in overtime, drawing his team-leading 19th charge of the season -- on Bryant, no less, who drove the left side of the lane looking to tie the game.

Instead, Arroyo made two free throws 0.3 seconds later, and Miami held on.

Miami led by nine with 9 minutes remaining in regulation and still held a 92-84 edge when Wade hit a 3-pointer with 3:40 remaining. The defending champion Lakers answered with a 9-2 run.

• Grizzlies 105, Bulls 96: Zach Randolph scored 31 points and grabbed 18 rebounds, and visiting Memphis rallied from a big first-half deficit to beat Chicago. O.J. Mayo scored 10 of his 20 points in the final quarter as the Grizzlies extended their franchise-record road win streak to six and sent the Bulls to their third loss in a row.

• Jazz 116, Suns 108: Deron Williams scored 13 of his 27 points during a 41-point fourth quarter, Mehmet Okur added 24 points, and visiting Utah won.

• Zydrunas Ilgauskas has forgiven the Cleveland Cavaliers for trading him and wants to return to the only NBA team he has played for to help it win a championship. Ilgauskas, the towering center known to Cleveland fans simply as "Z," told his agent to begin negotiations with the Cavaliers March 22 -- the first day he can sign. ... Allen Iverson's wife filed for divorce the same day Philadelphia announced that the All-Star guard would not return for the rest of the season. Tawanna Iverson filed for divorce in Fulton County Superior Court, asking for full custody of the couple's five children, child support and alimony.

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