Miami Heat (24-22, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns (27-18, sixth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Phoenix; Sunday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Phoenix hosts Miami trying to continue its six-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n
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The Suns have gone 14-5 at home. Phoenix ranks third in the Western Conference with 12.8 offensive rebounds per game led by Mark Williams averaging 3.2.<\/p>\n
The Heat are 9-15 on the road. Miami scores 119.9 points while outscoring opponents by 1.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Suns are shooting 46.1% from the field this season, 0.3 percentage points lower than the 46.4% the Heat allow to opponents. The Heat score 8.1 more points per game (119.9) than the Suns allow (111.8).<\/p>\n
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The teams square off for the second time this season. In the last matchup on Jan. 14 the Heat won 127-121 led by 29 points from Bam Adebayo, while Dillon Brooks scored 25 points for the Suns.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Williams is scoring 12.0 points per game and averaging 8.2 rebounds for the Suns. Brooks is averaging 16.9 points and 4.6 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Andrew Wiggins is shooting 47.1% and averaging 15.9 points for the Heat. Adebayo is averaging 2.3 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Suns: 6-4, averaging 111.5 points, 42.4 rebounds, 25.2 assists, 9.4 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 44.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
Heat: 4-6, averaging 116.7 points, 47.4 rebounds, 28.8 assists, 7.6 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 43.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 122.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Suns: Jalen Green: day to day (hamstring), Devin Booker: out (ankle).<\/p>\n
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Heat: Tyler Herro: out (toe), Kel’el Ware: day to day (hamstring), Davion Mitchell: day to day (shoulder).<\/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 The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Heat (24-22, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns (27-18, sixth in the Western Conference) Phoenix;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[500,1179,7,491,2292,1195,1409,861,69446,189,6,2065,472,4045,4485,604,1176,6445,492,574],"class_list":["post-559673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-phoenix-suns","tag-andrew-wiggins","tag-bam-adebayo","tag-basketball","tag-davion-mitchell","tag-devin-booker","tag-dillon-brooks","tag-eastern-conference","tag-jalen-green","tag-kel39el-ware","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-phoenixsuns","tag-points-per-game","tag-suns","tag-the-heat","tag-the-suns","tag-tyler-herro","tag-western-conference"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115955254609317413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559673","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=559673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}