LeBron James compared the game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat to a heavyweight fight.

If so, then the final punch was thrown by the Miami Heat — and it missed.

Anthony Davis scored 33 points, James had 28 while coming within a rebound of a triple-double and the Los Angeles Lakers held off the Heat 113-110 on Friday night.

"Two teams that are playing extremely well right now in this part of the season," James said.

James had 12 assists and nine rebounds and Davis grabbed 10 rebounds. The Lakers improved to 23-3 and remained tied with Milwaukee for the NBA's best record. They also extended the second-longest road winning streak in franchise history to 13 games and rallied from a double-digit deficit to win for the eighth time already this season.

It wasn't over until the very last second — Jimmy Butler knocked over James on his way to getting free enough to take the last shot, but his 3-pointer over Davis' outstretched arm bounced off the rim.

"It's always great to go against a great competitor in our league," James said about Butler. Including playoffs, they've squared off 34 times — going 17-17.

Butler led Miami with 23 points, Derrick Jones Jr. had 17, Kendrick Nunn added 16 and Kelly Olynyk had 15 . Bam Adebayo had 12 points and 12 rebounds for Miami, which had been 11-0 at home.

"All things being equal, these are two really good teams playing back and forth," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "We were able to create some separation in the first half, and then in the third quarter they were able to impose their will."

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope missed a free throw with eight seconds left to keep the Heat within two, but Miami couldn't get the rebound. Caldwell-Pope went back to the line with 4.2 seconds left, made one of two again and the Lakers' lead was pushed to three.

Butler took the last shot for Miami, a 3-pointer with about a second left. It hit the rim and bounced off, the Heat argued that he was fouled to no avail, and the Lakers survived in James' lone trip this season to the city where he won championships in 2012 and 2013.

Antetokounmpo has 37 in Memphis, Bucks run win streak to 17

After sitting out Milwaukee's previous game with right quad tendon soreness, Giannis Antetokounmpo had plenty of energy to lead a fourth-quarter burst that kept the Bucks' winning streak alive.

Antetokounmpo scored 17 of his 37 points in the final period to help Milwaukee pull away for its 17th straight victory, 127-114 over the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday night. Antetokounmpo helped the Bucks outscore Memphis 37-19 in the fourth to pull away.

"I thought he was fabulous," Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said of the league's reigning MVP. "He makes at least one, maybe two 3s, finishing at the basket, and defensively, I think he is doing good things."

The Bucks overcame Jaren Jackson Jr.'s career-high 43 points. He scored 26 in the third quarter, converting 7 of 11 3-pointers in the third alone, to give Memphis a 95-90 lead heading into the fourth.

"There hasn't been anything like that," Jackson said of his third-quarter offense, "because everything for a minute was going in for me. I felt just like a crazy rhythm and the basket got bigger."

But the Grizzlies couldn't hold on as Antetokounmpo almost outscored Memphis in the fourth on his own. The Bucks improved to 23-3, keeping pace with the Los Angeles Lakers for the best in the league. The Bucks have not lost since Nov. 8 at Utah.

"We were able to keep our composure, stay together, play together and execute on offense, defend even harder," said Antetokounmpo, who missed his first game of the season Wednesday night against New Orleans. "It says a lot about this team. It says a lot about how good this team can be, and how good this team is."

Khris Middleton added 26 points for the Bucks, while Eric Bledsoe finished with 12 before leaving in the third quarter with an injury. The 17-game winning streak is second-longest in franchise history, trailing only a 20-game run in the 1970-71 season.

Dillon Brooks had 19 points for Memphis, while Jae Crowder had 15 points.

"It took a heck of a fourth quarter from the Bucks to come away with the victory," said Memphis coach Taylor Jenkins, a member of the Bucks staff before taking over the Grizzlies this season.