Heat Wizards(Mandatory Credit: Megan Briggs/Getty Images)

With just eight days left in the regular season, the Miami Heat host the Washington Wizards in their penultimate home game of the 2025-26 regular season. Tip-off will be at 3:00 p.m. EST.

The Heat are losers of eight of their last 10, including a 147-129 loss to the Boston Celtics on Wednesday. Boston shot 58.3 percent from the floor while burying 21 threes on 44 attempts. Miami tied a franchise record of 24 made threes, but shot a measly 41.7 percent from inside the arc, including 18-of-43 in the paint and 4-of-9 at the rim.

The Wizards are losers of 20 of their last 21. One of those losses — on March 10 — came against the Miami Heat, where Bam Adebayo surpassed Kobe Bryant on the NBA’s all-time scoring mark, scoring 83 points, trailing only Wilt Chamberlain’s historic 100.

Remember: Wilt, Bam, Kobe. Learn it, live it, love it.

The only question is whether Adebayo will score 84 … or if the Heat can promptly stop a nosebleed, which they haven’t been able to do the last three weeks. Since the start of March, Miami has had the seventh-worst defensive rating, including a league-worst 127.4 defensive rating over the last two weeks.

At 40-37, Miami is one game back of Charlotte and Orlando for the No. 8 seed. Can the Heat earn a bounce-back win?! Let us know your prediction in the comments!

Injury Report (at the time of this publishing):

Washington Wizards:

Bilal Coulibaly (heel) — QUESTIONABLE

Anthony Davis (finger) — OUT

Trae Young (back) — OUT

Justin Champagnie (knee) — QUESTIONABLE

Kyshawn George (elbow) — OUT

Tre Johnson (foot) — QUESTIONABLE

Alex Sarr (toe) — QUESTIONABLE

Tristan Vukcevic (knee) — QUESTIONABLE

Cam Whitmore (shoulder) — OUT

Miami Heat:  

Tyler Herro (toe) — PROBABLE

Norman Powell (upper respiratory) — OUT

Terry Rozier (not with team) — OUT

Projected Starting 5 (subject to change):

Washington Wizards:

Bub Carrington, G

Tre Johnson, G

Bilal Coulibaly, F

Will Riley, F

Tristan Vukcevic, C

Miami Heat:

Davion Mitchell, G

Tyler Herro, G

Pelle Larsson, F

Andrew Wiggins, F

Bam Adebayo, C

Broadcast Info:

Tipoff: 3:00 PM EST

TV: ESPN & 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)

Come back to Hot Hot Hoops at game time to join our GameThread and chat about the game live with other Heat fans!

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