No Sneak Attack: Heat Beats Lakers : Pro basketball: Miner scores 13 points in return to L.A. as Miami sweeps series, 101-89.

Fashionably late rather than larcenously early, Harold Miner made his official debut in the Forum as the Miami Heat began a new era.

Miner scored 13 points Sunday night as the Heat, 5-32 on the road against Pacific Division teams and playing its second game in two nights, jolted the Lakers, 101-89, Sunday night.

The Heat, 0-10 against the Lakers in its first four years, led by 23 points during the fourth quarter, coasted in and swept the two-game season series, ending the Lakers’ three-game winning streak in the bargain.

Miner, the kid from nearby Plymouth and La Brea who used to sneak into the Forum for Laker games, hiding out for hours in the bathrooms, played only 11 minutes--the last eight of the first half and the last three of the second--but made the most of them, making all six of his shots, including two he banked in by accident.

“It was tough,” Miner said. “I wanted to play. The crowd was calling for me. My boys were in the stands. I guess I just had to wait until I was called upon.

“I wanted to be out there. I thought I played a good first half. . . . (Coach Kevin Loughery) is just trying to bring me along slow, I guess.”

Said Loughery: “We were just going so good (without Miner). I may have gone with the guys a little longer than I should have. I think he’s made great strides . . . he’s going to be a terrific NBA player.”

Laker Coach Randy Pfund drew two technicals and his first NBA ejection from referee Joe Forte.

Later Pfund wrote the word coach on the blackboard.

Under it, he wrote the words firing squad.

Said Pfund: “I don’t think there’s ever a team you necessarily think you’re going to beat, but a team like that, on a long trip, in last place, you’ve got to think you can take care of business. That’s why I’m up against the firing line.”

Miner came into the game with a 8.2-point average, but a 13-point average in his last 13 games after working his way into Loughery’s rotation.

“I told him to keep his head,” teammate John Salley said. “The big thing, he had to accept the role that Kevin gave him. Rookies have no say-so. But he bit his tongue.”

When Miner scored 18 points Dec. 28 against the Lakers and took the fourth quarter over, it was a dream come true.

When he walked onto the Forum court Sunday night, it was another.

“I used to picture being out there,” Miner said before the game, “playing in the championship game against the Celtics, being in the backcourt with Magic (Johnson). I used to dream about that stuff all the time.”

The Lakers haven’t played in any championship games recently and from the way they looked Sunday, they won’t be back to the finals soon.

The Heat shot 62% during the first quarter, 73% during the second.

A.C. Green, the 6-8 former power forward who had overmatched a series of smaller players in four starts at guard, finally found someone, Kevin Edwards, who could make him pay for his lack of quickness. Edwards made a 17-footer, a 20-footer, a layup, a 15-footer and another layup as the Heat took a 16-5 lead.

Edwards had 14 points 3:36 into the second quarter when Loughery inserted his backup, Miner, to applause from the hometown crowd.

Aware that the rookie would be trying to make an impression, the Lakers double-teamed.

But Miner fired away as Miami took a 60-42 halftime lead.

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Laker Notes

The Lakers have lost six games to last-place teams: two each to the Heat and Kings, one to the Bucks and Mavericks. . . . James Worthy missed all eight of his shots and went scoreless for the first time since Nov. 24, 1987. Vlade Divac had 24 points to lead the Lakers; Kevin Edwards led the Heat with 25 points.