Miami Heat (41-38, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (44-35, sixth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Toronto; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Miami travels to Toronto looking to break its three-game road slide.<\/p>\n
The Raptors are 31-18 against conference opponents. Toronto is 7-4 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
The Heat are 25-24 in Eastern Conference play. Miami is the Eastern Conference leader with 46.5 rebounds per game led by Bam Adebayo averaging 10.0.<\/p>\n
The Raptors are shooting 48.0% from the field this season, 1.6 percentage points higher than the 46.4% the Heat allow to opponents. The Heat score 8.5 more points per game (120.4) than the Raptors give up to opponents (111.9).<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the fourth time this season. The Raptors won 121-95 in the last matchup on April 7.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Scottie Barnes is averaging 18.2 points, 7.5 rebounds, 5.9 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.5 blocks for the Raptors. RJ Barrett is averaging 19.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Adebayo is scoring 20.0 points per game and averaging 10.0 rebounds for the Heat. Tyler Herro is averaging 2.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Raptors: 5-5, averaging 117.4 points, 40.6 rebounds, 34.4 assists, 10.4 steals and 5.7 blocks per game while shooting 51.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
Heat: 3-7, averaging 122.0 points, 43.4 rebounds, 29.5 assists, 6.2 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 47.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 129.3 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Raptors: None listed.<\/p>\n
Heat: Nikola Jovic: out (ankle).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Miami Heat (41-38, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (44-35, sixth in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[7,144,295,189,3881,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-705052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-heat","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-heat","12":"tag-miamiheat","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705052","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=705052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}