After a thrilling overtime win against Cleveland on Monday, the Miami Heat face a rematch against the visiting Cavs looking to secure their fourth straight win.
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Following the Miami Heat’s most exciting win of the 2025-26 season on Monday, they will again host the Cleveland Cavaliers on the second leg of a back-to-back set between each other.

The Miami Heat are now an undefeated 5-0 at home, 7-4 on the season, and have officially moved into the No. 3 seed in the East after tonight’s buzzer beating victory…

Against a top East contender, without their two best players.

Vibes are immaculate.

— Hot Hot Hoops (@hothothoops) November 11, 2025

Although it will be a rematch, the Cavs will look drastically different in this one. They are resting both All-Star starters Donovan Mitchell and Evan Mobley, and Darius Garland will be sidelined due to a re-aggravated toe injury that kept him out in the closing stretch of Monday’s overtime game inside the Kaseya Center. For the Heat, it will be the same exact injury report, with everyone available outside of Tyler Herro and Bam Adebayo.

The Monday night win featured a Jaime Jaquez Jr. game-tying midrange jumper to force overtime. That was then followed by coach Erik Spoelstra’s perfectly drawn up inbounds play that lead to an Andrew Wiggins buzzer beating game winning alley oop with .4 second left on the clock. Jaquez continued his bounce back campaign with a near triple-double outing of 22 points, 13 rebounds and 7 assists in the win.

Wiggins also quietly continued his strong season of his own thus far, adding 23 points and 5 boards on route to his clutch game winner. Norman Powell led with a team-high 33 points, as Kel’el Ware added a career-high 20 rebounds. Spoelstra stated after the game that it was Ware’s “best game in a Miami Heat uniform.”

Miami is aiming to extend to a four-game winning streak, along with improving to an undefeated 6-0 at home tonight. They are currently the 3rd seed in the Eastern Conference at a 7-4 record overall.

Undefeated teams at home this season:

— Heat
— Spurs
— Nuggets
— Warriors
— Knicks
— Thunder

The last time Miami started 5-0 at home, they made the NBA Finals (2020). pic.twitter.com/zI5WBv7vpu

— HeatMuse (@Heat_Muse) November 11, 2025

Injury Report (at the time of this publishing):

Miami Heat: 

Tyler Herro (ankle) — OUT

Bam Adebayo (toe) — OUT

Terry Rozier (not with team) — OUT

Myron Gardner (g-league) — OUT

Jahmir Young (g-league) — OUT

Cleveland Cavaliers: 

Larry Nance Jr. (knee) — QUESTIONABLE 

Darius Garland (toe) — OUT

Donovan Mitchell (rest) — OUT

Evan Mobley (rest) — OUT

Max Strus (foot) — OUT

Chris Livingston (g-league) — OUT

Projected Starting 5 (subject to change):

Miami Heat:

Davion Mitchell, G

Norman Powell, G

Pelle Larsson, G/F

Andrew Wiggins, F

Kel’el Ware, C

Cleveland Cavaliers: 

Lonzo Ball, G

Sam Merrill, G

De’Andre Hunter, F

Dean Wade, F

Jarrett Allen, 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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