{"id":706960,"date":"2026-04-09T23:42:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/706960\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T23:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:42:33","slug":"injuries-odds-how-to-watch-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/706960\/","title":{"rendered":"Injuries, Odds & How to Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

VITALS: The\u00a0Miami Heat<\/a>\u00a0(41-38) and\u00a0Toronto Raptors<\/a>\u00a0(44-35) meet for the fourth of four regular season matchups. So far this season, the Raptors have won all three previous contests. Last season, Miami won the series, 3-1.<\/p>\n

The Heat are 65-46 all-time versus Toronto during the regular season, including 39-19
in home games and 26-27 in road games.<\/p>\n

The Heat head into this game as the tenth seed in the East, 1.5 games behind the ninth-seeded Charlotte Hornets and two games behind the Philadelphia 76ers.<\/p>\n

The Raptors, meanwhile, come into the game as the sixth seed in the East, half a game behind the Atlanta Hawks, half a game ahead of the Orlando Magic and a game ahead of the 76ers.<\/p>\n

Game date, time and location:\u00a0Thursday, Apr. 9, 7:00 p.m. EST, Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, Ontario, Canada<\/p>\n

TV:\u00a0FanDuel Sports Network Sun, TSN (Toronto)<\/p>\n

Radio:\u00a0104.3 FM (Miami\/Ft. Lauderdale), ESPN 106.3 FM, (West Palm Beach), FOX Sports Radio 105.9 FM (Ft. Myers\/Naples), 1450 AM (Suart), 97.7 FM (Florida Keys), WAQI 710 AM (Spanish-language broadcast, South Florida), TSN Radio 1050 AM (Toronto)<\/p>\n

PROJECTED STARTERSHEAT<\/p>\n

G Davion Mitchell<\/p>\n

G Tyler Herro<\/p>\n

C Bam Adebayo<\/p>\n

F Pelle Larsson<\/p>\n

F Andrew Wiggins<\/p>\n

RAPTORS<\/p>\n

G Immanuel Quickley<\/p>\n

G RJ Barrett<\/p>\n

C Jakob Poeltl<\/p>\n

F Brandon Ingram<\/p>\n

F Scottie Barnes<\/p>\n

INJURY REPORTHEAT<\/p>\n

Norman Powell: Available – Groin<\/p>\n

Dru Smith: Out – Foot<\/p>\n

Tyler Herro: Available – Foot<\/p>\n

Norman Powell: Available – Conditioning<\/p>\n

Nikola Jovic: Available – Ankle<\/p>\n

Trevor Keels: Available – (Two-Way)<\/p>\n

Jahmir Young: Available – (Two-Way)<\/p>\n

Vlad Goldin: Available – (Two-Way)<\/p>\n

Terry Rozier: Out – Not with team<\/p>\n

RAPTORS<\/p>\n

Trayce Jackson-Davis: Out – Illness<\/p>\n

Chucky Hepburn: Out – Knee (Two-Way)<\/p>\n

Alijah Martin: Active – Two-Way<\/p>\n

AJ Lawson: Active – Two-Way<\/p>\n

Spread: Heat +3.5 (-106), Raptors -3.5 (-114)<\/p>\n

Moneyline: Heat +142, Raptors -168<\/p>\n

Total points scored: 236.5 (over -114, under -106)<\/p>\n

Game odds refresh periodically and are subject to change. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call\u00a0.<\/p>\n

QUOTABLE<\/p>\n

Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra: “What we do against a team like Toronto, have to bring a lot more force, physicality, and then, offensively, we definitely have to be more intentional about how we get to our games so they don’t flatten us out.”<\/p>\n

For more Miami Heat information and conversation, check out\u00a0Off The Floor.<\/a>Alexander Toledo is a contributor to Miami Heat On SI and producer\/co-host of the\u00a0Five on the Floor podcast<\/a>, covering the Heat and NBA. He can be reached at\u00a0Twitter: @tropicalblanket<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VITALS: The\u00a0Miami Heat\u00a0(41-38) and\u00a0Toronto Raptors\u00a0(44-35) meet for the fourth of four regular season matchups. So far this season,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[7,144,295,189,3881,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-706960","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":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116377407345956822","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706960","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=706960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}