Miami Heat (27-25, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (33-18, third in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Boston; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Miami will try to keep its three-game road win streak intact when the Heat play Boston.<\/p>\n
The Celtics are 22-12 in conference games. Boston has a 4-6 record in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n
The Heat have gone 14-15 against Eastern Conference opponents. Miami scores 119.9 points and has outscored opponents by 1.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Celtics average 15.6 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.6 more made shots on average than the 14.0 per game the Heat allow. The Heat are shooting 46.4% from the field, 2.1% higher than the 44.3% the Celtics’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The two teams play for the third time this season. The Celtics defeated the Heat 119-114 in their last meeting on Jan. 16. Jaylen Brown led the Celtics with 27 points, and Norman Powell led the Heat with 26 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Derrick White is averaging 17.3 points and 5.6 assists for the Celtics. Payton Pritchard is averaging 2.9 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Bam Adebayo is averaging 18.1 points and 9.9 rebounds for the Heat. Pelle Larsson is averaging 14.4 points, 5.3 rebounds and 4.1 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Celtics: 7-3, averaging 111.4 points, 47.0 rebounds, 24.7 assists, 7.1 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 45.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 102.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
Heat: 5-5, averaging 121.7 points, 51.4 rebounds, 29.7 assists, 8.9 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 45.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.6 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Celtics: Jaylen Brown: out (hamstring), Sam Hauser: out (thumb), Jayson Tatum: out (achilles), Nikola Vucevic: out (not injury related), Chris Boucher: out (personal).<\/p>\n
Heat: Andrew Wiggins: day to day (hamstring), Tyler Herro: day to day (toe), Norman Powell: day to day (personal).<\/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 (27-25, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (33-18, third in the Eastern Conference) Boston;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[70051,1111,7607,123,125,124,14596,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-144521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-70051","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-headlines","13":"tag-miami-news","14":"tag-nba-basketball","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144521","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=144521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144521\/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=144521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}