{"id":197459,"date":"2026-03-19T06:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T06:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197459\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T06:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T06:37:08","slug":"los-angeles-takes-on-miami-after-doncics-40-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197459\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles takes on Miami after Doncic’s 40-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> (44-25, third in the Western Conference) vs. Miami Heat<\/a> (38-31, seventh in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Miami; Thursday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Heat -3.5; over\/under is 239.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles visits the Miami Heat after Luka Doncic<\/a> scored 40 points in the Lakers’ 124-116 win against the Houston Rockets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Heat are 23-12 in home games. Miami ranks second in the league with 34.8 defensive rebounds per game led by Bam Adebayo<\/a> averaging 7.7.<\/p>\n

The Lakers are 21-13 in road games. Los Angeles ranks seventh in the Western Conference giving up only 114.9 points while holding opponents to 48.4% shooting.<\/p>\n

The 120.2 points per game the Heat score are 5.3 more points than the Lakers give up (114.9). The Lakers average 12.1 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.6 fewer made shots on average than the 13.7 per game the Heat allow.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the second time this season. The Lakers won 130-120 in the last matchup on Nov. 3.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Adebayo is averaging 20 points and 9.7 rebounds for the Heat. Tyler Herro<\/a> is averaging 17.8 points and 3.9 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Doncic is averaging 33 points, 7.9 rebounds, 8.5 assists and 1.5 steals for the Lakers. Austin Reaves is averaging 20.9 points and 5.9 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Heat: 7-3, averaging 121.6 points, 45.2 rebounds, 27.4 assists, 9.0 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 46.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

Lakers: 9-1, averaging 120.2 points, 40.2 rebounds, 27.8 assists, 9.4 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 50.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.8 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Heat: Jaime Jaquez Jr.: day to day (hip), Andrew Wiggins<\/a>: out (toe), Bam Adebayo: day to day (calf).<\/p>\n

Lakers: Maxi Kleber: out (back).<\/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":"Los Angeles Lakers (44-25, third in the Western Conference) vs. Miami Heat (38-31, seventh in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[40936,15960,70652,15357,78773,123,125,2490,124,16489,13465],"class_list":["post-197459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-andrew-wiggins","tag-bam-adebayo","tag-event_preview","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-luka-doncic","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-heat","tag-miami-news","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-tyler-herro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197459","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=197459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197459\/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=197459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}