MIAMI (AP) – Shaquille O’Neal has the Miami Heat off to their best start ever after scoring 20 points, grabbing nine rebounds and blocking three shots in a 103-93 victory over the Washington Wizards on Tuesday night.

Dwayne Wade continued his strong start, too, with 22 points and nine assists, and Udonis Haslem chipped in with 18 points and 10 rebounds for Miami. The Heat are 4-0 for the first time in club history, and also set a record by winning their 14th straight regular season home game dating back to last season.

O’Neal arrived in Miami from the Los Angeles Lakers promising to bring the Heat an NBA title. So far, the Heat have been unbeatable with O’Neal, who also had four assists against the Wizards.

Gilbert Arenas scored 20 points for Washington, which lost to the Heat for the second time in four nights and failed to score 100 points for the first time this season. Antawn Jamison finished with 14, well off the 27.3-point average he carried into the game.

Haslem and Wade combined to score 25 of Miami’s 37 points in the third quarter, when the Heat led by as many as 24 and wrapped up their sixth straight win over the Wizards dating back to last season.

Wade shot 7-for-11 from the field and sat out all but three minutes of the fourth quarter. So far this season, Wade – who’s averaging 27 points and eight assists – has connected on 57.4 percent of his shots, a 10.9 percent improvement over his rookie year.

Damon Jones added 12 points, all coming on 3-pointers, for Miami, which made 51.9 percent of its shots; Washington connected on only 43.2 percent.

Larry Hughes’ jumper with 5:22 left in the opening quarter put Washington up 13-11; the Wizards missed 10 straight shots over the next 7:33 and never led again. Wade scored five points in a 13-3 burst that gave Miami a 24-16 lead.

A flurry of 3-pointers – in a 69-second span, Arenas hit a pair and Juan Dixon added one – drew Washington within 26-25 with 8:40 left in the half.

Miami, though, closed the half on a 24-12 burst, with Keyon Dooling scoring his first six points of the season and Haslem adding five, including a 3-point play with 14.4 seconds left that pushed Miami’s lead to 50-35.

Washington, which got 13 points from Anthony Peeler, 12 from Dixon and 11 from Jarvis Hayes, only got closer than 11 once in the second half – on Peter Ramos’ jumper with 3.3 seconds left.

Notes: Wizards C Brendan Haywood played for the first time this season, finishing with four points and seven rebounds. He was suspended for three games after fighting in a preseason game against Chicago. … Miami trailed for 4 minutes, 44 seconds in the opening quarter; the Heat trailed a total of 18 seconds in their first three games combined. … Dooling played 11 first-half minutes, nearly twice his season total entering the game. … O’Neal went 4-for-10 from the foul line – raising his season percentage to 30.0.

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