{"id":587345,"date":"2026-02-07T01:20:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T01:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/587345\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T01:20:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T01:20:44","slug":"miami-heat-vs-boston-celtics-02-06-2026-game-preview-when-and-where-to-watch-expected-lineup-injury-report-prediction-and-more-nba-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/587345\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Heat vs. Boston Celtics (02-06-2026) game preview: When and where to watch, expected lineup, injury report, prediction, and more | NBA News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/miami-heat-vs-boston-celtics-preview.jpg\" alt=\"Miami Heat vs. Boston Celtics (02-06-2026) game preview: When and where to watch, expected lineup, injury report, prediction, and more\" title=\"Miami Heat vs. Boston Celtics preview (Image via NBA)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Miami Heat vs. Boston Celtics preview (Image via NBA) The third of four regular-season meetings between the Boston Celtics (33-18) and Miami Heat (27-25) will take place. Boston has won both of their prior meetings this season. The Heat&#8217;s record against the Celtics in the regular season is 54-88 overall, including 30-43 home games and 24-45 away games, as well as 52-20 home games and 30-41 away games.On February 6, the Boston Celtics (33-18) will face the Miami Heat (27-25) in an attempt to extend their winning streak to four games. In their game against the Heat on Friday, the Celtics are a healthy 6.5-point favorite. The game has an over\/under of 226.5.<\/p>\n<p>Miami Heat vs. Boston Celtics &#8211; When and where to watch the game<\/p>\n<p>The Miami Heat vs. the Boston Celtics match will tip off on Friday, February 6, 7:30 p.m. EST, at TD Garden, Boston, Massachusetts. FanDuel Sports Network Sun and NBC Sports Boston will telecast the whole match for the fans sitting at home. Additionally, Fubo and Prime Videos will stream the match online. <\/p>\n<p>Miami Heat vs. Boston Celtics &#8211; Expected Starting Lineups<\/p>\n<p>Miami Heat <\/p>\n<p>PG Davion MitchellSG Pelle LarssonSF Norman PowellPF Andrew WigginsC Bam Adebayo<\/p>\n<p>Boston Celtics<\/p>\n<p>PG Payton PritchardSG Derrick WhiteSF Jaylen BrownPF Sam HauserC Nikola Vucevic<\/p>\n<p>Miami Heat vs. Boston Celtics &#8211; Injury Report<\/p>\n<p>Miami Heat <\/p>\n<p>Tyler Herro- Out (Ribs)Terry Rozier- Out (immediate leave)<\/p>\n<p>Boston Celtics<\/p>\n<p>John Tonje- Out (Was traded from the Jazz to the Celtics)Jayson Tatum- Out (Achilles)<\/p>\n<p>Miami Heat vs. Boston Celtics &#8211; Game Prediction<\/p>\n<p>In 23 of 51 games this season, the Celtics and their opponent have combined to score more than 226.5 points, which is the current matchup&#8217;s over\/under. This season, the Heat have scored more than 226.5 points in 37 of their 52 games. Compared to the game&#8217;s over\/under (226.5), these two clubs average 9.3 more points per game (235.8).The aggregate average score of the two teams&#8217; opponents is 226.6 points, which is 0.1 more than the game&#8217;s over\/under of 226.5 points. In its 36 games as the favorite this season, Boston has won 25 of them. Out of the 27 games Miami has been the clear favorite to win this season, it has won 12 of them, or 44.4%. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Heat vs. Boston Celtics preview (Image via NBA) The third of four regular-season meetings between the Boston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[7,52768,78952,78951,78950,144,295,189,33745,78949,3881,6,78953],"class_list":{"0":"post-587345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics-injury-report","10":"tag-celtics-heat-game-lineup","11":"tag-celtics-vs-heat-prediction","12":"tag-february-6-2026-nba-game","13":"tag-heat","14":"tag-miami","15":"tag-miami-heat","16":"tag-miami-heat-injury-report","17":"tag-miami-heat-vs-boston-celtics-preview","18":"tag-miamiheat","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-nba-game-broadcast-details"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116026729244595917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587345","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=587345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}