Detroit Pistons (1-0, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. Miami Heat (0-1, 14th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Miami; Friday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: Heat -1.5; over\/under is 234.5<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Detroit visits Miami for an Eastern Conference matchup.<\/p>\n
Miami went 43-39 overall and 27-25 in Eastern Conference action a season ago. The Heat averaged 8.6 steals, 4.3 blocks and 13.1 turnovers per game last season.<\/p>\n
Detroit went 60-22 overall and 39-13 in Eastern Conference action during the 2025-26 season. The Pistons averaged 117.8 points per game last season, 57.9 in the paint, 21.4 off of turnovers and 18.0 on fast breaks.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Heat: None listed.<\/p>\n
Pistons: Taurean Prince: 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":"Detroit Pistons (1-0, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. Miami Heat (0-1, 14th in the Eastern Conference) Miami;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,14596,110],"class_list":["post-434554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-nba-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434554","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=434554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}