Miami Heat (28-27, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (15-40, 14th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
New Orleans; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The New Orleans Pelicans host the Miami Heat in non-conference action.<\/p>\n
The Pelicans are 9-19 in home games. New Orleans is 2-3 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
The Heat have gone 12-16 away from home. Miami ranks second in the NBA with 46.7 rebounds per game. Bam Adebayo leads the Heat with 9.8.<\/p>\n
The Pelicans score 114.7 points per game, 2.6 fewer points than the 117.3 the Heat allow. The Heat average 13.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.2 fewer made shots on average than the 14.6 per game the Pelicans allow.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the second time this season. The Heat won 125-106 in the last matchup on Jan. 4.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Trey Murphy III is scoring 22.2 points per game with 5.7 rebounds and 3.8 assists for the Pelicans. Saddiq Bey is averaging 22.4 points and 6.3 rebounds while shooting 46.5% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Adebayo is scoring 18.3 points per game with 9.8 rebounds and 2.8 assists for the Heat. Andrew Wiggins is averaging 14.7 points and 4.9 rebounds while shooting 47.0% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Pelicans: 5-5, averaging 113.5 points, 44.5 rebounds, 25.7 assists, 9.2 steals and 5.9 blocks per game while shooting 44.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Heat: 5-5, averaging 120.4 points, 51.9 rebounds, 28.8 assists, 9.8 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 45.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.1 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pelicans: Dejounte Murray: out (leg).<\/p>\n
Heat: Norman Powell: day to day (back), Tyler Herro: out (ribs), Pelle Larsson: day to day (elbow).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Heat (28-27, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (15-40, 14th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[190134,1331,49,48,459,34740,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-465825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-190134","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}