Phoenix Suns (24-15, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Miami Heat (20-19, eighth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Miami; Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Phoenix will attempt to prolong its three-game win streak with a victory over Miami.<\/p>\n
The Heat have gone 13-6 in home games. Miami is third in the Eastern Conference scoring 119.4 points while shooting 46.9% from the field.<\/p>\n
The Suns are 10-10 on the road. Phoenix ranks fifth in the Western Conference with 15.2 fast break points per game led by Devin Booker averaging 3.4.<\/p>\n
The Heat are shooting 46.9% from the field this season, 0.2 percentage points higher than the 46.7% the Suns allow to opponents. The Suns are shooting 46.3% from the field, 0.3% higher than the 46.0% the Heat’s opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jaime Jaquez Jr. is scoring 15.9 points per game and averaging 5.2 rebounds for the Heat. Andrew Wiggins is averaging 16.2 points and 4.9 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Dillon Brooks is scoring 21.2 points per game and averaging 3.3 rebounds for the Suns. Booker is averaging 24.9 points and 3.5 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Heat: 5-5, averaging 116.9 points, 45.4 rebounds, 28.2 assists, 11.1 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 45.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
Suns: 8-2, averaging 114.1 points, 48.0 rebounds, 25.3 assists, 8.7 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 44.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Heat: Norman Powell: out (back).<\/p>\n
Suns: Jamaree Bouyea: out (concussion protocol), Jalen Green: out (hamstring).<\/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":"Phoenix Suns (24-15, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Miami Heat (20-19, eighth in the Eastern Conference) Miami;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[58080,1111,123,125,124,14596,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-114761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-58080","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\/114761","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=114761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114761\/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=114761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}