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Miami Heat<\/a> (27-26, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Washington Wizards<\/a> (14-37, 14th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Washington; Sunday, 2 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Heat -11; over\/under is 235.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Eastern Conference foes Washington and Miami will play on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Wizards have gone 2-5 against division opponents. Washington allows the most points in the Eastern Conference, giving up 122.7 points and is allowing opponents to shoot 47.7%.<\/p>\n

The Heat are 3-5 against the rest of their division. Miami is 6-3 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n

The Wizards average 112.4 points per game, 5.2 fewer points than the 117.6 the Heat allow. The Heat average 13.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.5 fewer makes per game than the Wizards allow.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Bub Carrington<\/a> is averaging 10.1 points and 4.6 assists for the Wizards. Will Riley<\/a> is averaging 12.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jaime Jaquez Jr. is scoring 15.4 points per game and averaging 5.4 rebounds for the Heat. Bam Adebayo<\/a> is averaging 21.9 points and 10.4 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Wizards: 4-6, averaging 110.9 points, 42.0 rebounds, 25.6 assists, 9.5 steals and 6.1 blocks per game while shooting 44.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

Heat: 5-5, averaging 120.1 points, 50.2 rebounds, 29.0 assists, 9.2 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 45.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.9 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Wizards: Dante Exum: out for season (knee), Anthony Davis<\/a>: out for season (finger), Alex Sarr<\/a>: out (ankle), Jaden Hardy: out (not injury related), Bilal Coulibaly: out (back), Cam Whitmore<\/a>: out for season (shoulder), D’Angelo Russell: out (illness), Tre Johnson: out (ankle), Kyshawn George: out (knee), Trae Young: out (knee).<\/p>\n

Heat: Norman Powell: day to day (hand), Tyler Herro<\/a>: out (ribs), Pelle Larsson: day to day (elbow), Bam Adebayo: day to day (hip).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Heat (27-26, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Washington Wizards (14-37, 14th in the Eastern Conference) Washington;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3780],"tags":[979,495,1179,7,2644,4836,78812,4959,189,1407,6,492,682,468,3892,982,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-590124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-alex-sarr","9":"tag-anthony-davis","10":"tag-bam-adebayo","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-bub-carrington","13":"tag-cam-whitmore","14":"tag-event_preview","15":"tag-jaime-jaquez-jr","16":"tag-miami-heat","17":"tag-national-basketball-association","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-tyler-herro","20":"tag-washington","21":"tag-washington-wizards","22":"tag-washingtonwizards","23":"tag-will-riley","24":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116034027509708226","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590124","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=590124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}