{"id":701685,"date":"2026-04-06T17:05:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/701685\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:05:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:05:37","slug":"toronto-faces-conference-foe-miami-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/701685\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto faces conference foe Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat<\/a> (41-37, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors<\/a> (43-35, seventh in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Toronto; Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Raptors -2.5; over\/under is 238.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Miami plays Toronto in Eastern Conference action Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Raptors are 30-18 in Eastern Conference games. Toronto ranks second in the Eastern Conference with 29.5 assists per game led by Immanuel Quickley<\/a> averaging 6.0.<\/p>\n

The Heat are 25-23 in Eastern Conference play. Miami has a 6-4 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n

The Raptors average 11.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.7 fewer makes per game than the Heat allow (14.0). The Heat average 13.6 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.0 more made shot on average than the 12.6 per game the Raptors give up.<\/p>\n

The two teams play for the third time this season. The Raptors defeated the Heat 112-91 in their last matchup on Dec. 24. Scottie Barnes<\/a> led the Raptors with 27 points, and Jaime Jaquez Jr.<\/a> led the Heat with 21 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Barnes is scoring 18.1 points per game with 7.5 rebounds and 5.9 assists for the Raptors. RJ Barrett<\/a> is averaging 19.6 points and 4.4 rebounds while shooting 47.7% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Bam Adebayo<\/a> is averaging 20.2 points and 10 rebounds for the Heat. Tyler Herro<\/a> is averaging 2.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Raptors: 4-6, averaging 116.8 points, 39.0 rebounds, 34.2 assists, 10.3 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 51.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Heat: 3-7, averaging 123.1 points, 43.3 rebounds, 29.5 assists, 6.3 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 47.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 130.8 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Raptors: Immanuel Quickley: out (foot).<\/p>\n

Heat: Norman Powell: day to day (illness), Tyler Herro: day to day (personal).<\/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 (41-37, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (43-35, seventh in the Eastern Conference) Toronto;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[1179,7,78812,144,3715,4959,295,189,3881,1407,6,1041,1261,476,492],"class_list":{"0":"post-701685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-bam-adebayo","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-event_preview","11":"tag-heat","12":"tag-immanuel-quickley","13":"tag-jaime-jaquez-jr","14":"tag-miami","15":"tag-miami-heat","16":"tag-miamiheat","17":"tag-national-basketball-association","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-rj-barrett","20":"tag-scottie-barnes","21":"tag-toronto-raptors","22":"tag-tyler-herro"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116358855318141526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701685","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=701685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}