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Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> (21-33, 11th in the Western Conference) vs. Miami Heat<\/a> (29-27, eighth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Miami; Saturday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Heat -9.5; over\/under is 238<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Memphis hits the road against Miami looking to stop its four-game road losing streak.<\/p>\n

The Heat have gone 16-11 at home. Miami is second in the Eastern Conference with 54.4 points per game in the paint led by Jaime Jaquez<\/a> Jr. averaging 10.3.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies are 9-18 on the road. Memphis ranks ninth in the NBA<\/a> with 45.0 rebounds per game. Santi Aldama<\/a> leads the Grizzlies with 6.7.<\/p>\n

The Heat average 119.7 points per game, 2.3 more points than the 117.4 the Grizzlies give up. The Grizzlies average 13.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.4 fewer makes per game than the Heat give up.<\/p>\n

The two teams square off for the second time this season. The Heat defeated the Grizzlies 146-114 in their last meeting on Oct. 25. Bam Adebayo<\/a> led the Heat with 24 points, and Cedric Coward<\/a> led the Grizzlies with 16 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Adebayo is averaging 18.4 points and 9.9 rebounds for the Heat. Andrew Wiggins<\/a> is averaging 1.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Walter Clayton<\/a> Jr. is scoring 6.9 points per game and averaging 2.0 rebounds for the Grizzlies. GG Jackson<\/a> is averaging 13.7 points and 5.5 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Heat: 4-5, averaging 119.7 points, 51.0 rebounds, 28.8 assists, 9.8 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 45.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Grizzlies: 3-7, averaging 116.5 points, 39.1 rebounds, 27.3 assists, 11.2 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 48.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 121.7 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Heat: None listed.<\/p>\n

Grizzlies: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope: out for season (finger), Scotty Pippen<\/a> Jr.: out (toe), Ty Jerome<\/a>: out (calf), Ja Morant: out (elbow), Zach Edey: out (ankle), Cedric Coward: out (knee), Santi Aldama: out (knee), Brandon Clarke<\/a>: out (calf).<\/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":"Memphis Grizzlies (21-33, 11th in the Western Conference) vs. Miami Heat (29-27, eighth in the Eastern Conference) Miami;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[500,1179,7,2710,3522,78812,1265,4959,177,189,1407,6,12,1185,627,1201,2130],"class_list":{"0":"post-616567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-andrew-wiggins","9":"tag-bam-adebayo","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-brandon-clarke","12":"tag-cedric-coward","13":"tag-event_preview","14":"tag-gg-jackson","15":"tag-jaime-jaquez-jr","16":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","17":"tag-miami-heat","18":"tag-national-basketball-association","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-nba-draft","21":"tag-santi-aldama","22":"tag-scotty-pippen-jr","23":"tag-ty-jerome","24":"tag-walter-clayton-jr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116111089617739644","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616567","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=616567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616567\/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=616567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}