Miami Heat (39-35, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Indiana Pacers (16-58, 15th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Indianapolis; Sunday, 5 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Indiana hosts Miami looking to break its 11-game home losing streak.<\/p>\n
The Pacers are 12-33 in Eastern Conference games. Indiana averages 13.8 turnovers per game and is 12-25 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents.<\/p>\n
The Heat are 23-21 in conference play. Miami is third in the Eastern Conference with 18.0 fast break points per game led by Norman Powell averaging 3.4.<\/p>\n
The Pacers’ 13.1 made 3-pointers per game this season are only 0.7 fewer made shots on average than the 13.8 per game the Heat allow. The Heat’s 46.4% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.7 percentage points lower than the Pacers have given up to their opponents (49.1%).<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the third time this season. The Pacers won the last meeting 123-99 on Jan. 11, with Andrew Nembhard scoring 29 points in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jarace Walker is scoring 11.5 points per game and averaging 5.1 rebounds for the Pacers. Aaron Nesmith is averaging 16.6 points and 2.6 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jaime Jaquez Jr. is averaging 14.9 points and 4.8 assists for the Heat. Bam Adebayo is averaging 25.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Pacers: 1-9, averaging 115.1 points, 38.5 rebounds, 31.0 assists, 6.4 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 49.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 124.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Heat: 4-6, averaging 121.3 points, 43.0 rebounds, 28.6 assists, 8.3 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 46.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 124.6 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pacers: Johnny Furphy: out for season (knee), Ivica Zubac: out for season (rib), Jarace Walker: day to day (concussion), Tyrese Haliburton: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n
Heat: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Miami Heat (39-35, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Indiana Pacers (16-58, 15th in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-209351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209351","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=209351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}