New Orleans Pelicans (8-28, 15th in the Western Conference) vs. Miami Heat (19-16, eighth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Miami; Sunday, 6 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Heat -7.5; over\/under is 242.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: New Orleans comes into the matchup against Miami as losers of six games in a row.<\/p>\n The Heat are 12-6 on their home court. Miami is 4-2 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n The Pelicans have gone 2-12 away from home. New Orleans has a 4-13 record in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n The Heat are shooting 47.3% from the field this season, 1.4 percentage points lower than the 48.7% the Pelicans allow to opponents. The Pelicans average 115.4 points per game, 2.2 fewer than the 117.6 the Heat give up to opponents.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Bam Adebayo is scoring 17.4 points per game and averaging 9.7 rebounds for the Heat. Norman Powell is averaging 21.0 points and 1.0 rebound over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Trey Murphy III is averaging 20.5 points, 6.1 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.6 steals for the Pelicans. Zion Williamson is averaging 35.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Heat: 5-5, averaging 118.2 points, 46.1 rebounds, 26.8 assists, 10.4 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 45.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.1 points per game.<\/p>\n Pelicans: 4-6, averaging 118.6 points, 45.6 rebounds, 23.9 assists, 8.6 steals and 5.5 blocks per game while shooting 46.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 121.9 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Heat: Pelle Larsson: day to day (ankle), Tyler Herro: day to day (toe), Jaime Jaquez Jr.: day to day (ankle).<\/p>\n Pelicans: Herbert Jones: out (ankle), Dejounte Murray: out (leg), Saddiq Bey: out (hip), Derik Queen: day to day (quad), Trey Murphy III: day to day (back).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Orleans Pelicans (8-28, 15th in the Western Conference) vs. Miami Heat (19-16, eighth in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[54289,1111,123,125,124,14596,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-105044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-54289","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-headlines","12":"tag-miami-news","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}