Philadelphia 76ers (41-33, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Miami Heat (39-36, ninth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Miami; Monday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> 76ers -2; over\/under is 245.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Miami plays Philadelphia looking to stop its three-game home skid.<\/p>\n The Heat have gone 23-22 against Eastern Conference opponents. Miami ranks fifth in the Eastern Conference with 11.9 offensive rebounds per game led by Kel\u2019el Ware averaging 2.9.<\/p>\n The 76ers are 24-23 in Eastern Conference play. Philadelphia ranks eighth in the league scoring 17.0 fast break points per game. Tyrese Maxey leads the 76ers averaging 5.7.<\/p>\n The Heat are shooting 46.4% from the field this season, 0.5 percentage points lower than the 46.9% the 76ers allow to opponents. The 76ers average 116.2 points per game, 1.7 fewer than the 117.9 the Heat give up.<\/p>\n The teams meet for the third time this season. The 76ers won 124-117 in the last matchup on Feb. 27.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Jaime Jaquez Jr. is shooting 50.0% and averaging 15.0 points for the Heat. Bam Adebayo is averaging 24.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Maxey is averaging 28.9 points, 6.7 assists and two steals for the 76ers. Cameron Payne is averaging 2.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Heat: 3-7, averaging 121.0 points, 42.3 rebounds, 28.4 assists, 7.9 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 46.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 127.1 points per game.<\/p>\n 76ers: 7-3, averaging 120.0 points, 45.0 rebounds, 25.7 assists, 9.2 steals and 7.0 blocks per game while shooting 47.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.2 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Heat: Norman Powell: day to day (back).<\/p>\n 76ers: Johni Broome: out (knee).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers (41-33, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Miami Heat (39-36, ninth in the Eastern Conference) Miami;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69180,59305,3840,17218,5918,69181,54924,16678,20359,4794,10377,69182,40,28,69,1002,71,70,726,12920],"class_list":["post-152115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-bam-adebayo","tag-cameron-payne","tag-data-skrive","tag-fl-state-wire","tag-florida","tag-jaime-jaquez","tag-johni-broome","tag-miami","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-norman-powell","tag-pa-state-wire","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-sports","tag-tyrese-maxey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}