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Injury Report:
Miami Heat:
- Terry Rozier (chest) — AVAILABLE
- Alec Burks (back) — OUT
- Nikola Jovic (hand) — OUT
- Dru Smith (achilles) — OUT
- Josh Christopher (g-league) — OUT
LA Clippers:
- Kawhi Leonard (rest) — OUT
- Ben Simmons (left knee; injury management) — OUT
- Norman Powell (right hamstring strain) — OUT
Starting 5:
Miami Heat:
- Davion Mitchell, G
- Tyler Herro, G
- Andrew Wiggins, F
- Bam Adebayo, F/C
- Kel’el Ware, C
LA Clippers:
- Kris Dunn, G
- James Harden, G
- Bogdan Bogdanović, F
- Nicolas Batum, F
- Ivica Zubac, C
Broadcast Info:
- Tipoff: 8:00 PM EST
- TV: Fanduel Sports Network 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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I’m no conspiracy theorist, but I’m wondering if “quiet quitting” is infectious? Is Spo burned out or is he trying to pull a Monty Williams (the former Detroit coach) by coaching so poorly that he gets fired, thus requiring Miami to pay him the rest of his $120M contract? Does he also possibly have his eyes on the San Antonio job if Pop isn’t able to return next season from his stroke? Inquiring minds want to know.
we are one wemby away from being a good team.
Then we need to get in the lottery and get lucky like Atlanta did last year when they went from 11th pick to 1st. Those two 2025 draft picks are like gold. Miami can get real creative via recruitment, draft or trade.
The guys need to put yesterday in the rearview mirror and bust their butts the rest of the season, so the team can be in a warrior state of mind when the postseason begins, ready to do battle, win or lose!
From here on out it shouldn’t be about wins and losses. It’s should be about everyone getting comfortable with each other and the system. This is the time for the guys to gel as a team.
At this point in a very long season, the finish line is not too far ahead. The question is, do you want to go out on your shield or on your butt? When you go into battle, hold your head high and give it all you’ve got.
hes not coaching his use of personnel has always been ?
Without Jimmy Miami’s record would be 16-23. Or the 8 the worst winning percentage in the league.
Honestly with how far they are from having a competitive roster, they should see if they can off load Bam for a boat load of first round picks, rather than waste his prime years on this dead franchise.
100% agree on trading bam and getting picks also not opposed to seeing the new market for herro being he’s an all star now and what that would look like
At this point every loss is a good loss. This team is embarrassing and has no business in the playoffs, and each loss improves their shot at keeping a lottery pick.
That said the fact that they are continuing to try and win and lose in every way imaginable is yet another failure for this organization.
This last year or so Heat Culture died
Jimmy talked about the playoff performance when not playing
Pat scolded Jimmy publicly, versus behind closed doors
They unveiled the embarrassing Wade statue
They destroyed any trade value Jimmy had by not getting in front of it.
When trading Jimmy, they failed to free up cap room, bringing in players with multiple years left on their deals.
And rather than recognize early that this team has no business in the playoffs, they won too much early and are still trying at this point.
Just compounding failure of this organization.
And pretty sure we’re gonna hear from Pat about ‘running it back’, because they basically have no other choice.
Fire everyone.
scolding him publically coaches gms never do that never .2 great posts 1 more than usual
If Miami (29-36) was in the Western Conference, it would be in 12th place, 3.5 games behind 10th place (33-33) Dallas.
dont forget their in by far the worse division
The season before Dragic was traded from Phoenix to Miami (2014), the Suns went 48-34 and missed the playoffs by one game. In the Eastern Conference this year, two teams may make it into the playoffs with losing records while two Western Conference teams with winning records might not make it in to the playoffs at all. Go figure. Who said life was fair?
thanks for showing up bam
lac on back to back
bs call no foul
thans pat for this mess
wiggins above avg player motivated jimmy ss
man lakers fd up with zubac
Clippers playing without 2 of 3 best players (Leonard and Powell). Boston, Memphis, New York, Detroit, Houston are next up. Piece of cake.
maybe 1 win
Lottery here we come
I hope so.
Me too
61% shooting play ty n dunc spobot this guy just does same rotations loss after loss
heat gonna be #10 tough schedule
hey bam hardens #2 3 guy all time and u dont press up on him shame on your effort put a stop payment on bams ck
bam ware need 1 to go
This time Heat didn’t have a lead to surrender 😂😝
Coffey should’ve gotten tea’d up! 😆
u cant get stops what good is it
You can’t have a 4th quarter collapse if you’ve trailed the whole game. So there’s that. Again, no Keshad Johnson.
how bout a game collapse
Or a mental collapse. Y’all gonna make me lose my mind, up in here, up in here.
Inexplicable
clips played last night hello bam
Pelle is such a dog
can he knock down js?that will determine his fate.like the kids feistiness
airplane mode def of a journey man type player
yeah bams not giving any effort jon
brian that was a foul or herros a good actor
beyond zubac beard not much
Does anyone do the heat rewards thing every game
a canes bball player a rarerity
What a dot
Is it just me or does Zubac always kill us
does this to lots teams.bams too small
ty some impressive ball.bam nada
i thought james was washed guess not
beard best player on ct year 17 incred zubac eating little bam up
pelle over dunc good move spobot leave 55d on bench
pelle goal goal
wiggy keeping us afloat
bogy having his best game of year
bam paid vacation tonight
bam ware not working
Just down 5. Heat #9 currently. Really tempting to tank
if kawhi powell were playing?
pelles d impressive
hit his elbow ereid its fair homer
eric and jon when u got ty n dunc out there your d is gonna suk duh
zubac is so improved impressive
ty had good 50 games been so so lately
keshad johnson gotta be better than swedish sensation gotta be
ware bam not working trade bam for a ss
Lol!
dunc can hit all the 3s he wants 38% just cant have his d in there
zubac to big for bam
PELLE
Great hustle!