Following another significant and thrilling statement win on Friday over the Charlotte Hornets, the Miami Heat face another tough task. They will look to win their fifth straight game back at home versus the top seed Detroit Pistons. Despite the Pistons dominant 45-17 record and the best in the Eastern Conference, they are dealing with […]
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While this Miami Heat season has still largely felt like pulling teeth, they are quietly playing some of their best basketball of the season. Winners of four-straight, seven of their last nine and eight of their last 11, Miami is now six games above .500 (35-29) for the first time since Dec. 4, including a […]
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The Nets are looking to avoid their 11th straight loss, but it won’t be easy against the best team in the East. 🏀 KEY INFO Who: Brooklyn Nets (15-47) vs Miami Heat (45-16)When: 6:00 PM ETWatch: YES Network Nets prospect watch here. 💬 DISCUSSION Share your thoughts and react, but please be respectful. NetsDaily prides itself […]
The Charlotte Hornets couldn’t overcome Tyler Herro and the Miami Heat in what felt like a playoff game. They lost 128-120. The Summary Kon Knueppel opened the game with a pair of the threes and a little middy in the paint. Brandon Miller closed the first quarter with a couple of funky runners and nine […]
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Behind one of Tyler Herro’s most complete offensive performances of his career, the Miami Heat picked up a huge 128-120 win over the red-hot Charlotte Hornets inside Spectrum Center on Friday night. The Heat’s win extends their current win streak to four, improving them to 11-4 on the second night of back-to-backs this season. More […]
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As the Miami Heat continue their playoff push with just 19 games remaining, they are starting to slowly but surely hit their stride. Even with Norman Powell injured, too. Miami is coming off of three straight wins, including winners of seven of their last 10 games. They just swept a 3-0 homestand and will now […]
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What: Charlotte Hornets (32-31) (14-16 home) vs Miami Heat (34-29) (14-18 away) When: 7:00pm Eastern Where: Spectrum Center; Charlotte, NC How to watch: FanDuel Sports Network, NBA League Pass Outfitting: Hornets–City (yellow/orange), Heat–City (black Miami vice) Game Lines: Hornets -6.5, Hornets -270, O/U 228.5 Injuries:Hornets: Tidjane Salaun-out (calf) Heat: Not yet submitted, Norman Powell likely […]
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Practically 48 hours after the Miami Heat’s frontcourt made history in their 124-98 win over the Brooklyn Nets, they made more history in their second of two-straight against Brooklyn. However, this time, it was a one-man show. A one-man wrecking crew, rather. Heat second-year big Kel’el Ware had his most impactful two-way performance of his […]
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The Miami Heat have continued their winning ways on Thursday amidst this end of season playoff push. They took down the Brooklyn Nets in their second straight matchup at home, as Miami is now riding a three-game winning streak. It is also the Heat’s seventh win out of their last 10 games and will now […]
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The Brooklyn Nets played the Miami Heat for a second straight time tonight. It was an honest remake. The same characters appeared. There were a few creative spins on the script and plot. However, we got the same, predicable ending. Much like in the Tuesday game, the Nets struggled to protect the rock this evening, […]
The tanking has been bad. Really bad. The Nets have lost nine straight entering Thursday’s home-and-home with Miami. They aren’t the only tankers… tanking. The Pacers have lost seven straight, Wizards six straight, and the Jazz seven straight. One win and it can all be thrown off. The Draft Lottery can’t come soon enough. 🏀 […]
The streak rolls on. The Brooklyn Nets began a three game road trip on Tuesday night against the Miami Heat. The Heat were too hot to handle and handed the Nets their ninth straight defeat, 124-98. Fortunately for the Nets, they didn’t have to travel between games. Unfortunately for the Nets, they have to play […]
Miami will look to sweep the season series 3-0 against the Nets to finish off their homestand. (Mandatory credit: Imagn Images) After a dominant 124-98 win over the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday, the Miami Heat will rematch at home for both team’s second straight game. It will be the final of Miami’s three/game homestand before […]
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While each NBA team has until the final day of the regular season to sign players to a standard contract, the same does not apply to two-way contracts. As teams finalize their rosters heading into the final month of the season, teams will have until March 4 to ink players to two-way contracts. The Miami […]
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Death, taxes, the Miami Heat sporting a top-flight defense. Believe it or not, that’s been the trend since Bam Adebayo entered the starting lineup full-time in 2019-20. You can’t refute that the Heat’s three-time All-Star has been indispensable for the team’s defense, which was a top-10 unit in each of the last six seasons entering […]
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While it wasn’t the most aesthetically pleasing brand of basketball, the Miami Heat washed away the tanking Brooklyn Nets, 124-98, Tuesday evening inside Kaseya Center. Miami was led by Bam Adebayo, who scored a game-high 23 points with nine rebounds on 11-of-24 shooting. Adebayo continued his torrid two-month stretch of play, as did Kel’el Ware, […]
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Hoping to build off arguably their biggest win of the season against the Houston Rockets, the Miami Heat encountered the tanking Brooklyn Nets, a team on the opposite end of the scale from their recent counterpart. While it wasn’t always pretty, aesthetically, Miami still pulled away en route to a 124-98 win inside Kaseya Center. […]
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The Brooklyn Nets have reached the part of the season where their games fade before the final buzzer. You sit through it. You register the score. And then, after a few days, it’s gone. By this summer, you probably won’t even remember you watched it. There’s no reason for it to linger in your memory. […]
A brief stop at home before getting back on the road. The Brooklyn Nets came home for an afternoon matchup against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday afternoon. The Nets put up a heck of a fight, but ultimately fell short. The losing streak is at eight. The opponent tonight is in the all too comfortable […]
The Miami Heat are entering a crucial five-game stretch to make a playoff push, beginning with the first of two straight home matchups against the visiting Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night. Miami is 1-0 against the Nets already this year and will try to sweep their three-game season series by this weekend. The Nets are […]
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The Sixers won three straight. The third win was a pretty crucial one, staving off the Miami Heat’s push for the sixth seed and evening the season series, putting the all-important tie-breaker still in play with the season series tied 1-1. Unfortunately, Joel Embiid suffered a flukey oblique injury and the Sixers proceeded to lose […]
There are officially fewer than six weeks left in the 2025-26 regular season, where the Miami Heat have just 21 games left. Miami is still two games back of the Philadelphia 76ers for the sixth-and-final postseason slot, hoping to avoid its fourth-straight play-in. As we enter the final full month of the regular season, what […]
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There are officially fewer than six weeks left in the 2025-26 regular season, where the Miami Heat have just 21 games left. Miami is still two games back of the Philadelphia 76ers for the sixth-and-final postseason slot, hoping to avoid its fourth-straight play-in. As we enter the final full month of the regular season, what […]
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Every organization has its strengths and weaknesses. For the better part of two decades upon arrival, one of Pat Riley and the rest of the Miami Heat front office’s redeeming qualities was acquiring (super)star talent. However, now the Heat’s speciality is drafting and developing said talent. Not all of them turn into stars, sans for […]
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