{"id":676160,"date":"2026-03-24T09:53:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/676160\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:53:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:53:35","slug":"victor-wembanyama-spurs-pick-apart-heat-in-136-111-thrashing-hot-hot-hoops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/676160\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama, Spurs pick apart Heat in 136-111 thrashing &#8211; Hot Hot Hoops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-23-at-10.19.36-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Heat Spurs\" class=\"wp-image-15397\"  \/>(Photo courtesy of the Miami Heat \/\/ Twitter)<\/p>\n<p>The Miami Heat dropped their fifth-straight game Monday night inside Kaseya Center, getting demolished in a 136-111 loss to Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio\u2019s offense was on cruise control all night. Wembanyama led the way with a game-high 26 points in 26 minutes, shooting 11-of-22 from the floor while grabbing 15 rebounds with four assists and five blocks. San Antonio shot 47.5 percent from the floor and 34.5 percent from 3-point range in the 25-point win. That may sound modest, but those two marks are superb relative to a fully healthy Miami Heat team, who shot 40 percent and 30.5 percent from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n<p>The Heat couldn\u2019t develop any sort of offensive rhythm against the now-54-win Spurs, a top-3 defense in the NBA, spearheaded by Wembanyama. They had just 30 points in the paint through three quarters, as well as just four second-chance points over that span, before both coaches emptied their benches.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama completely walled off the rim for the Heat, essentially deterring everything that entered his path. Offensively, he was just as dominant, using every inch of his 7-foot-5 frame to his advantage against a smaller, weaker Heat.<\/p>\n<p>Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro scored 18 points apiece in the losing effort. Additionally, their struggles continued with Norman Powell and Herro together, dropping to 5-11 in games played when both are active. Powell scored a team-high 21 points on 7-of-17 shooting, including 10 points with a pair of threes in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Miami\u2019s five-game losing streak keeps them as the No. 9 seed in the East, mirroring Orlando\u2019s five-game skid. Oddly enough, it looks more at ease the more injured it is. With 10 games left in the season, time is running out for Miami to avoid a fourth-straight play-in. Currently at No. 9, Miami is two games back of Atlanta for the No. 6 seed in the East.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>To check out our other content, click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hothothoops.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Hot Hot Hoops on Twitter\/X\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hothothoops?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Follow Hot Hot Hoops on Instagram\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hothothoops?fbclid=PAAaZK-uxa3cMPUQcM2z6aGmK3faJ-G1R7YKtEOcPJNPO4VwfOvw1epBIoCyk_aem_Ad_aZ7zQwWkfVN5rHfd0UkIWrYEnU4j4Ulz0SRK__Qt1738L-NeQ3cZC5voFks7V6K8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Check out Hot Hot Hoops on Facebook\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/1GUQbKhsRp\/?mibextid=wwXIfr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our YouTube channel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hothothoops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo courtesy of the Miami Heat \/\/ Twitter) The Miami Heat dropped their fifth-straight game Monday night inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[52336,8457,7,25338,144,52338,3948,52830,295,189,52339,3953,3881,6,474,534],"class_list":{"0":"post-676160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-2025-26-miami-heat-game-recap","9":"tag-2025-26-miami-heat-season","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-game-recap","12":"tag-heat","13":"tag-heat-game-recap","14":"tag-heat-news","15":"tag-heat-spurs","16":"tag-miami","17":"tag-miami-heat","18":"tag-miami-heat-game-recap","19":"tag-miami-heat-news","20":"tag-miamiheat","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","23":"tag-spurs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116283549459739384","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676160","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=676160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}