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 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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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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Few players were tougher, physically and mentally, than former MiamI Heat veteran Udonis Haslem. Haslem was never the best player on the Heat, but the OG’s voice was always loud. But in one statistical category, his production spoke volumes as well. Over 4,800 days ago in Novermber of 2012, Haslem broke Alonzo Mourning’s record for […]
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We are in the home stretch of the 2025-26 Miami Heat season. At 32-29, there are just six weeks — and 21 games — left in the season. Since our last power rankings round-up, the status quo has remained the same: Miami is mediocre. In all honesty, that hasn’t changed for the better part of […]
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Last week, Miami Heat forward Myron Gardner and Scotty Pippen decided to exchange — in Pippen’s words — some not-so-friendly “hugs.” Before that point, Gardner and Heat guard Pelle Larsson have often been irritants, a compliment from us but with condemnation from others. One-time All-Star Tyler Herro found himself face-to-face with Kevin Durant Saturday in […]
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It’s been a while since the Miami Heat have earned a statement win, but they did just that on Saturday. They handed the now 37-22 visiting Houston Rockets a 115-105 loss inside Kaseya Center, spoiling Kevin Durant’s 32-point outing. The victory improves Miami’s record to 32-29 overall, closing the playoff seeding gap to .5 games […]
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This is our GAMETHREAD: Chat live about the game here! Injury Report: Houston Rockets: Miami Heat: Projected Starting 5 (subject to change): Houston Rockets: Miami Heat: Broadcast Info: Come back to Hot Hot Hoops at game time to join our GameThread and chat about the game live with other Heat fans! *** To check out […]
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After a three-game win streak, the Miami Heat have since lost two straight. They will look to bounce back as they return to Kaseya Center to host the visiting Houston Rockets for an early weekend matchup Saturday. The Rockets are coming off a win versus the Orlando Magic in a game where Kevin Durant dropped […]
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Despite trailing by as many as 16 in the second half, the Miami Heat, playing in their biggest game of the season, made it interesting down the stretch against the Philadelphia 76ers. However, the Heat could not close the door, with Philadelphia earning a crucial 124-117 win that could ultimately make a big difference as […]
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Miami Heat guard Norman Powell is done after one half of basketball against the Philadelphia 76ers with a right groin strain, the team announced moments before halftime. Powell, 32, was listed as questionable before the game with right groin soreness. But he was able to complete shootaround and was made active moments before the contest. […]
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This is our GAMETHREAD: Chat live about the game here! Injury Report: Philadelphia 76ers: Miami Heat: Starting 5: Philadelphia 76ers: Miami Heat: Broadcast Info: *** To check out our other content, click here. Follow Hot Hot Hoops on Twitter/X here! Follow Hot Hot Hoops on Instagram here! Subscribe to our YouTube channel here!
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The end is near for guard Terry Rozier in a Miami Heat uniform. Well, technically, Rozier hasn’t suited up for the Heat this season after being arrested in late October due to be linked to an illegal gambling proble. Rozier was charged with conspiracy charges on wire fraud and money laundering, where he allegedly played […]
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After a disappointing loss on Tuesday, and the first loss post All-Star break, the Miami Heat are searching for a bounce back win. They will continue this road trip by taking on Joel Embiid and the Philadelphia 76ers. This is a matchup that will have some important Eastern Conference standings implications. The eighth seed Heat, […]
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Over the past near-decade, the Miami Heat have dealt with handing out several regretful contracts to players who didn’t pan out as expected. This could go all the way back to the very beginning of the post-LeBron era in 2014 starting with guys like Josh McRoberts, Tyler Johnson, James Johnson, Dion Waiters and even Hassan […]
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The Miami Heat have made the play-in for three-straight seasons. If the season ended today, at 31-28, it would make it for a fourth. Thankfully for them, the season doesn’t end today — or tomorrow. With 23 games left, Miami is currently 1.5 games back of the Philadelphia 76ers, who they square off with on […]
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Former Miami Heat great Dwyane Wade will forever be an icon not only in Heat history, but in Miami sports history. He was a huge reason why there’s an entire generation of fans in the city, where he’ll forever immortalized as an all-time great. But none of it — including the Heat’s three championships — […]
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The Giannis-less Milwaukee Bucks, who has still be sidelined with a long term calf injury, handed the Miami Heat their first post All-Star break loss 128-117 on Tuesday night. Miami was in this game throughout until being outscored 39-24 in a fourth quarter collapse. They were unable to get the necessary defensive stops and the […]
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