San Antonio will attempt to extend its five-game win streak with a victory against Miami. Monday’s game is the second meeting of the season between the two teams. The Spurs won the last matchup 107-101. Miami is 23-13 at home, and San Antonio is 25-11 on the road.<\/p>\n
San Antonio Spurs (53-18, second in the Western Conference) vs. Miami Heat (38-33, ninth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Miami; Monday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: San Antonio is looking to prolong its five-game win streak with a victory against Miami.<\/p>\n
The Heat have gone 23-13 at home. Miami leads the Eastern Conference with 120.3 points and is shooting 46.5%.<\/p>\n
The Spurs are 25-11 on the road. San Antonio is 8-4 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n
The Heat are shooting 46.5% from the field this season, 1.4 percentage points higher than the 45.1% the Spurs allow to opponents. The Spurs average 119.0 points per game, 1.8 more than the 117.2 the Heat give up to opponents.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the second time this season. The Spurs won the last matchup 107-101 on Oct. 31, with Victor Wembanyama scoring 27 points in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Bam Adebayo is scoring 20.4 points per game with 9.9 rebounds and 2.9 assists for the Heat. Tyler Herro is averaging 18.1 points and 5.0 rebounds while shooting 47.4% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama is averaging 24.3 points, 11.1 rebounds and three blocks for the Spurs. De’Aaron Fox is averaging 20.7 points and 6.6 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Heat: 6-4, averaging 123.2 points, 44.2 rebounds, 28.9 assists, 8.9 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 47.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Spurs: 9-1, averaging 123.9 points, 47.0 rebounds, 30.3 assists, 5.4 steals and 5.9 blocks per game while shooting 49.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.0 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Heat: Norman Powell: out (calf), Jaime Jaquez Jr.: out (hip), Andrew Wiggins: out (toe).<\/p>\n
Spurs: David Jones Garcia: out for season (ankle), Stephon Castle: out (hip), Devin Vassell: out (hamstring).<\/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":"San Antonio will attempt to extend its five-game win streak with a victory against Miami. Monday’s game is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-541247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}