The Miami Heat will host the Atlanta Hawks looking to pickup their third win in four games and improve to 28-24 overall.
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To conclude a brief three-game homestand, the Miami Heat will host the new-look 24-27 Atlanta Hawks.

This will be Miami’s first matchup against this younger Atlanta core after they traded away Trae Young. The Heat are 1-0 against the Hawks this season and have won their last three games versus them. Atlanta has lost six of their last 10 and is sitting at the 10th seed in the Eastern Conference. Miami jumped back into the seven-seed after their previous win over the Chicago Bulls at 27-24 overall. They are two games back of the sixth seed and three games behind a tie for fourth.

The Heat will attempt to get some real consistency going with a second straight win and three out of their last four. Norman Powell, who sat out the last two outings for personal reasons, has been upgraded to questionable. Powell is coming off a first-time All-Star honors and still leading the Heat in scoring at just over 23 points per game. Bam Adebayo has also been feeling it of late, averaging nearly 24 points and 10 boards over his last 8 games.

Atlanta’s Jalen Johnson will be the biggest task to contain on the Heat’s scouting report. Johnson secured an All-Star berth of his own this past week, as the rising forward is averaging a career-high 23 points, 10.5 rebounds and 8 assists near triple-double on the season on 50% shooting. He will now be the Hawks leading force after the departure of Young.

This will be the final game for Miami before Thursday’s NBA trade deadline with a little three-day break before their next game in Boston on Friday.

Injury Report (at the time of this publishing):

Atlanta Hawks:

Kristaps Porzingis (Achilles) — QUESTIONABLE 

Onyeka Okongwu (dental fracture) — OUT 

Duop Reath (foot) — OUT

N’Faly Dante (ACL) — OUT

Caleb Houstan (g-league) — DOUBTFUL

Nikola Djurisic (g-league) — DOUBTFUL

RayJ Dennis (g-league) — DOUBTFUL

Miami Heat:  

Norman Powell (personal reasons) — QUESTIONABLE 

Nikola Jovic (hip) — QUESTIONABLE

Tyler Herro (ribs) — OUT

Terry Rozier (not with team) — OUT

Projected Starting 5 (subject to change):

Atlanta Hawks:

Nickeil Alexander-Walker, G

Dyson Daniels, G

Jalen Johnson, F

Zaccharie Risacher, F

Mouhamed Gueye, C

Miami Heat:

Davion Mitchell, G

Norman Powell, G/F

Pelle Larsson, G/F

Andrew Wiggins, F

Bam Adebayo, C

Broadcast Info:

Tipoff: 7:30 PM EST

TV: FanDuel Sports Network Sun (Eric Reid & John Crotty)

Radio: AM 560 Sports WQAM & The HEAT Radio Network (Jason Jackson)

Spanish Radio: WAQI 710 AM & The HEAT Spanish Radio Network (José Pañeda)

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