NBA roundup: Jimmy Butler, Heat eliminate Bucks

CATCHING FIRE: Jimmy Butler #22 of the Miami Heat dunks the ball against the Milwaukee Bucks. Pic: Megan Briggs/Getty Images

Jimmy Butler scored 42 points as the visiting Miami Heat advanced to the Eastern Conference semifinals with a 128-126 overtime victory over the top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks in Game 5 on Wednesday.

Butler followed up his franchise-playoff-record, 56-point performance in Game 4 by helping the eighth-seeded Heat overcome a 16-point, fourth-quarter deficit with 12 straight Heat points during one stretch before converting an alley-oop in the final second to force overtime.