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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 the last decade. Water always finds its level, and that’s currently the Heat’s level, for better or worse. With that said, where do a handful of pundits rank the Heat heading into March? Let’s examine!
“Tyler Herro is back, and the Heat offense has come out of the break strong. With comfortable wins over the Hawks and Grizzlies, they’re still eighth in the East with a chance to move up a spot or two.“
“Tyler Herro is back! And the 2022 Sixth Man of the Year might be getting his Payton Pritchard on, as Herro came off the Miami bench back-to-back nights as a part of Heat blowout wins. Obviously, Herro is a very good player and could easily start. But fit matters, and Norman Powell is the All-Star in a contract year while Herro has yet to play more than five straight games this season. We’ll have to see how long the arrangement lasts, but the four-man lineup of Powell, Bam Adebayo, Andrew Wiggins and wing Pelle Larsson has outscored opponents by 78 points in 225 minutes this season.”
ESPN (Bobby Marks): No. 16
“If the Heat are not a play-in team for the first time since 2022, it likely comes because of Tyler Herro’s health and play. In his first game since Jan. 15, Herro scored 24 points in only 23 minutes. He scored 14 points the next night in a win against Memphis. Those were only the second set of back-to-back games Herro has played this season.“
CBS Sports (Brad Botkin): No. 17
“The definition of a mediocre NBA team. Not good. Not bad. 5-5 in their last 10. They survive on wins against bad teams. Somehow only two losses back of a top-six seed.“
“Every time it feels like the Miami Heat might be generating a little momentum, they hit a snag and keep hovering around .500. The most recent up-and-down was a three-game winning streak followed by back-to-back losses. And though they got 40 threes up in Thursday’s loss to the Philadelphia 76ers, their typical lack of three-point volume may to be blame (at least in part) for their mediocrity.
The Heat are in the bottom third of the league in three-point-attempt rate and below average in effective field-goal percentage. If players like Norman Powell, Tyler Herro and Andrew Wiggins could each get off one more three per game, Miami would have a better chance of keeping pace with their opponents.”
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