Source: AP,

SACRAMENTO, Calif. —Dwyane Wade came flying down the lane, grabbed a miss with his right hand and slammed it home in one motion.

If coach Erik Spoelstra wanted the Miami Heat to end a West Coast trip with an exclamation point, Wade provided the proper punctuation.

Wade’s fourth-quarter dunk highlighted his 36-point night and led the Heat to their season-best eighth straight win, 104-83 over the Sacramento Kings on Saturday.

Two weeks after having a team meeting in Dallas following their fourth loss in five games, the Heat are finally clicking the way people expected when they added LeBron James and Chris Bosh last summer.

We have a different mentality both off the floor and on the court as well," Wade said. “That team meeting really propelled us to where we are now. We understood and knew November was a tough month for us. But with that adversity there was a lot of growth going on. It was just about when it was going to click and right now it’s clicking for us."

James scored 25 and Bosh added 14 points and a season-high 17 rebounds as the Heat broke open a close game in the third quarter to complete a perfect four-game road trip.

Miami has won every game during this winning streak by double digits.

It’s two weeks to the night when we were walking out of Dallas locker room and we did not feel that great about ourselves as a team," Spoelstra said. “Now, two weeks later it feels like a different feeling in the locker room."

The Kings, who have lost 15 of 17 and have the second-worst record in the NBA, offered little resistance to James, Wade, Bosh and Co.

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