Atlanta Hawks (24-27, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Miami Heat (27-24, seventh in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Miami; Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Hawks visit Bam Adebayo and the Miami Heat in Eastern Conference action Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The Heat are 14-14 against Eastern Conference opponents. Miami is second in the Eastern Conference with 54.7 points per game in the paint led by Jaime Jaquez Jr. averaging 10.5.<\/p>\n
The Hawks are 12-18 in Eastern Conference play. Atlanta has a 12-19 record against teams over .500.<\/p>\n
The Heat’s 13.4 made 3-pointers per game this season are just 0.2 more made shots on average than the 13.2 per game the Hawks allow. The Hawks average 14.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.7 more makes per game than the Heat give up.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the second time this season. The Heat won the last matchup 126-111 on Dec. 27, with Norman Powell scoring 25 points in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Andrew Wiggins is shooting 46.8% and averaging 15.6 points for the Heat. Adebayo is averaging 22.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jalen Johnson is averaging 23.1 points, 10.5 rebounds and eight assists for the Hawks. Nickeil Alexander-Walker is averaging 19.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Heat: 6-4, averaging 122.4 points, 51.2 rebounds, 30.2 assists, 9.0 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 44.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
Hawks: 4-6, averaging 112.6 points, 42.9 rebounds, 28.5 assists, 9.4 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 44.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.2 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Heat: Tyler Herro: out (toe), Nikola Jovic: out (hip), Norman Powell: out (personal).<\/p>\n
Hawks: Onyeka Okongwu: day to day (face), Kristaps Porzingis: out (achilles), N’Faly Dante: out for season (knee), Duop Reath: out for season (foot).<\/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":"Atlanta Hawks (24-27, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Miami Heat (27-24, seventh 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":[68288,1111,123,125,124,14596,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-140519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-68288","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\/140519","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=140519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140519\/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=140519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}