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Injury Report
Miami Heat:
- Duncan Robinson (Back; Discomfort) — OUT
- Josh Richardson (Right Shoulder; Surgery) — OUT
- Terry Rozier (Neck; Spasm) — OUT
Toronto Raptors:
- Bruce Brown (knee) — QUESTIONABLE
- Gary Trent Jr. (back) — QUESTIONABLE
- Scottie Barnes (hand) — OUT
- Chris Boucher (knee) — OUT
- Jakob Poeltl (hand) — OUT
- Jontay Porter (personal reasons) — OUT
- DJ Carton (ankle) — OUT
Starting 5:
Miami Heat:
- Tyler Herro, G
- Caleb Martin, G
- Jimmy Butler, F
- Nikola Jovic, F
- Bam Adebayo, C
Toronto Raptors:
- Immanuel Quickley, G
- Gary Trent Jr, G
- RJ Barrett, F
- Bruce Brown, F
- Malik Williams, C
Broadcast Info:
- Tipoff: 8:00 PM EST
- TV: Bally Sports Sun (Eric Reid, John Crotty)
- Radio: AM 560 Sports WQAM & The HEAT Radio Network (Jason Jackson)
- Spanish Radio: WAQI 710 AM & The HEAT Spanish Radio Network (José Pañeda)
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GO HEAT!!!
This win is nothing to brag about against a tanker. But, the play of Jovic and JJJ was very encouraging. You know who was really impressive though, Barrett. We could use a player like him.
Magic, Pacers and 76ers are in a three-way tie at 46-35, one game ahead of 45-36 Miami. If all three teams win on Sunday, 76ers will get the 7th spot because of tie-breakers and will host Miami in first game of play-in round.
Hopefully, Philly beats the Nets and Orlando loses to the Bucks or Indiana loses to the Hawks. The Heat has a much better chance against the Pacers or Magic in the first game of the play-in round than red hot Philly, especially if Scary Terry and Duncan are both back.
Otherwise, it looks like Philly in the first game of the play-in round. If Miami loses to Philly and beats the winner of the #9 Chicago vs #10 Atlanta game, it will face 63-18 Boston (in Boston) in the first round.
GO PHILLY!
If Orlando loses and the other two win, which is the likely outcome, Heat will face Orlando in the play-in round. Pretty good match up in my opinion. And if we win, we play against number two seed Milwaukee, which is a better match up than the Knicks or Celtics. I don’t think we could ask for more, depending on the circumstances.
im not sure we can beat chi 5050 pretty sure we can beat atl 8020 dont think we can beat phily 3070.bostons a good matchup for us4060 .need rozier back if not those odds gone down little bit.if somehow someway we get playoff jimmy back which we havent seen all year we can beat anybody in east.aint beating denv so please somebody out west beat denver
One last regular season game. And Heat’s fate is not in their hands anymore. Everyone it seems like their giving their eulogy for the season already. I’ll reserve mine when its all over. One last miracle? One small sliver of hope. Lezzgo!!
go heat
Does everyone else look at the standings and think about where the Heat would be if they had beat the Pacers and Sixers last week? Or just split? This team could have been a 5-seed! Instead they’re stuck in 8th and hoping everyone else loses out
if pat would have given jimmy more help a few years ago i would have met rc 30 big and manila on bisc blvd in july
just got home from the gym and finally seen the 2nd half. This was a very good win, and feels even better knowing we still got a chance at the 6th seed. Special shoutout to the big 3…. Kevin was A LOVE MACHINE, and the best player tonight in my opinion with his championship saviness. up next jovic continues growing and getting better offensively and defensively. Lastly Mr. Juan wick breaking down the rookie wall with a career high 9 assists.
very good win come on big 25-55 team bro.
We still lost to them last time .
they prob had og and their best player barnes didnt play.gimme freeman liberty grady dick and gary temple everyday of the week
We played them after they made the trade, so they didn’t have og. Also we had temple at the beginning of career, but we released him like when we had pat Beverly, and did the same to him .
Yay!
orl loses believe we can be 6th seed
Told you to be patient.
u got anything else alien
Stop freaking out with every loss.
im freaking out jimmys not a ss anymore
need a nets win over phily
Well if orlando loses, it is heat vs magic in the play in. Which is better than 76ers with embiid and coached by nick nurse in my opinion. And we would get 7th place and face the bucks in the playoffs, which is better than celtics or knicks.
W!!! Go Heat!!!
Go to the playoffs and scare all of them lol
Hoping Jaquez has turned a corner and contributr like this in po
go heat
jovic weird shooting motion ,shoots it from the hip
i miss rc
freeman liberty better find another type of employment
go heat
Go Miami Heat!! 😂😜
Go Heat! 😁
thats all u got
where should the heat go
im really surprised klove didnt go to lal
will somebody pls guard rj
k love playing better than anybody lastfew weeks
jimmy to the basket is over
Go Heat!!
thats all u got lol
One more…Go Heat! 😜
bam exits lead balloons.love playing so smart and good,cant wait for him to enter games now
rj always goes to left heat
knicks gave up 2 good players
when k love enters for bam heat dont miss a beat
k love so good
toro has a boshi?
tor 25 55 yikes
i think hh got more upside than jjj or jovic
hh try to score more dam it u got it
Hfl, no no no no no to whatever you said. And Let’s go Heat!! I’m up to dessert.
up by 13
what was for dinner
Fish, tomahawk pork chop, crème brûlée
buffet or ala carte
Ala carte for us both
u dont live in so fla?
Tamarac. We’ll hook up some time.
orlando loses sunday we win we got 6th seed eric said
Need a Nets win over Philly as well.
when tys passing more than shooting we are better
would u trade jjj for barrett big
jimmy giveup getting to the rim son aint happening,embid finished game
when u have a grady dick and afreeman libertyplaying are u playing AN NBA TEAM
gotta realize toronto ontheir 81st game is looking for vacation plans.this game means squat
cain should get calebs minutos spobot.those line drive jumpers very rarely go in spobot
Good first half.
Bam bam balling
Jovic in the best stretch of his young Career.
been ok nothing really great how bout a 30 pt gaME
toronto really tore it down does pat dare do that
ka bam 3
great pass jjj looked like luka
bam just cant shoot anymore might need glasses
jjj breakout game
The best he’s played in a longtime.
started off like an all star .went to a scrub for about 30 games now an all star hopefully
He will be better next year for sure with an off-season putting In work.
agree major upside seen it
first half jjj tonight
Jaquez looking good tonight!
jjj looking good
shoot more hh
jimmy just cant get to the rim he does make some nice passes