Los Angeles Clippers (5-15, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Miami Heat (13-6, fourth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Miami; Monday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Miami hosts Los Angeles trying to prolong its four-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n
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The Heat have gone 9-2 at home. Miami ranks second in the NBA with 57.3 points in the paint led by Tyler Herro averaging 14.0.<\/p>\n
The Clippers have gone 2-8 away from home. Los Angeles has a 2-10 record against teams over .500.<\/p>\n
The 123.6 points per game the Heat average are 5.9 more points than the Clippers give up (117.7). The Clippers are shooting 47.0% from the field, 3.2% higher than the 43.8% the Heat’s opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the second time this season. The Heat won the last meeting 120-119 on Nov. 4, with Bam Adebayo scoring 25 points in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jaime Jaquez Jr. is shooting 53.0% and averaging 16.2 points for the Heat.<\/p>\n
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James Harden is averaging 27.7 points, 5.9 rebounds and 8.7 assists for the Clippers. Kawhi Leonard is averaging 30 points and eight rebounds over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Heat: 7-2, averaging 123.0 points, 48.7 rebounds, 29.8 assists, 7.9 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 46.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
Clippers: 2-8, averaging 114.7 points, 40.8 rebounds, 23.2 assists, 7.6 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 46.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 121.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Heat: Jaime Jaquez Jr.: day to day (groin).<\/p>\n
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Clippers: Bradley Beal: out for season (hip), Jordan Miller: day to day (hamstring), Derrick Jones Jr.: out (knee), Bogdan Bogdanovic: day to day (hip).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Clippers (5-15, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Miami Heat (13-6, fourth in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[1179,7,1303,3086,530,1409,144,4959,560,6483,529,251,135,295,189,3881,6,4485,1176,492,574],"class_list":{"0":"post-444002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-bam-adebayo","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-bogdan-bogdanovic","11":"tag-bradley-beal","12":"tag-derrick-jones-jr","13":"tag-eastern-conference","14":"tag-heat","15":"tag-jaime-jaquez-jr","16":"tag-james-harden","17":"tag-jordan-miller","18":"tag-kawhi-leonard","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","21":"tag-miami","22":"tag-miami-heat","23":"tag-miamiheat","24":"tag-nba","25":"tag-points-per-game","26":"tag-the-heat","27":"tag-tyler-herro","28":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115637913188624048","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}