Miami Heat (10-6, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (9-6, sixth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Philadelphia; Sunday, 1 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Philadelphia hosts the Miami Heat after Tyrese Maxey scored 54 points in the Philadelphia 76ers’ 123-114 overtime victory against the Milwaukee Bucks.<\/p>\n
The 76ers are 8-6 against Eastern Conference opponents. Philadelphia has a 4-5 record against teams above .500.<\/p>\n
The Heat are 6-3 against Eastern Conference opponents. Miami is the NBA leader with 30.6 assists per game led by Davion Mitchell averaging 7.3.<\/p>\n
The 76ers average 118.4 points per game, 0.6 fewer points than the 119.0 the Heat allow. The Heat are shooting 48.2% from the field, 1.4% higher than the 46.8% the 76ers’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Maxey is shooting 47.3% and averaging 33.4 points for the 76ers. Paul George is averaging 4.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Kel’el Ware is averaging 11.5 points and 10.3 rebounds for the Heat. Norman Powell is averaging 19.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: 76ers: 5-5, averaging 115.1 points, 45.4 rebounds, 25.8 assists, 8.1 steals and 6.0 blocks per game while shooting 46.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
Heat: 7-3, averaging 125.0 points, 45.0 rebounds, 31.2 assists, 9.5 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 47.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: 76ers: Adem Bona: day to day (ankle), Joel Embiid: day to day (knee), Kelly Oubre Jr.: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n
Heat: Nikola Jovic: day to day (hip), Andrew Wiggins: day to day (hip), Tyler Herro: out (ankle).<\/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":"Miami Heat (10-6, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (9-6, sixth in the Eastern Conference) Philadelphia;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24989,1165,10377,69,71,70,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-41565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-24989","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nba-basketball","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","13":"tag-philadelphia-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41565","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=41565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}