{"id":177529,"date":"2026-03-04T08:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177529\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:40:07","slug":"miami-puts-home-win-streak-on-the-line-against-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177529\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami puts home win streak on the line against Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brooklyn Nets<\/a> (15-46, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Miami Heat<\/a> (33-29, eighth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Miami; Thursday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Miami hosts Brooklyn looking to prolong its three-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n

The Heat are 17-18 in conference play. Miami is third in the league with 54.4 points in the paint led by Jaime Jaquez<\/a> Jr. averaging 10.2.<\/p>\n

The Nets have gone 11-27 against Eastern Conference opponents. Brooklyn is the worst team in the Eastern Conference scoring averaging 106.8 points per game while shooting 44.5%.<\/p>\n

The Heat are shooting 46.4% from the field this season, 3.2 percentage points lower than the 49.6% the Nets allow to opponents. The Heat average 106.8 points per game, 9.9 fewer points than the 116.7 the Heat allow.<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the third time this season. In the last matchup on March 4 the Heat won 124-98 led by 23 points from Bam Adebayo<\/a>, while Noah Clowney<\/a> scored 17 points for the Nets.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Adebayo is averaging 18.7 points and 9.9 rebounds for the Heat. Andrew Wiggins<\/a> is averaging 16.3 points and 5.8 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Michael Porter<\/a> Jr. is scoring 24.1 points per game and averaging 6.9 rebounds for the Nets. Clowney is averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Heat: 6-4, averaging 119.9 points, 50.5 rebounds, 28.0 assists, 8.9 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 46.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

Nets: 1-9, averaging 104.2 points, 37.7 rebounds, 26.1 assists, 8.5 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 44.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.9 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Heat: Nikola Jovic: day to day (back), Norman Powell: out (groin).<\/p>\n

Nets: Egor Demin<\/a>: day to day (injury management).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Nets (15-46, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Miami Heat (33-29, eighth in the Eastern Conference) Miami;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[40936,15960,5832,70600,70652,45005,123,125,2490,124,30816,16489,30820],"class_list":["post-177529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-andrew-wiggins","tag-bam-adebayo","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-egor-demin","tag-event_preview","tag-jaime-jaquez-jr","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-heat","tag-miami-news","tag-michael-porter-jr","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-noah-clowney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177529","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=177529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}