{"id":707691,"date":"2026-04-10T21:48:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/707691\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T21:48:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:48:56","slug":"heat-to-play-their-final-road-game-of-the-2025-26-regular-season-versus-wizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/707691\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat to play their final road game of the 2025-26 regular season versus Wizards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"571\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_1089-1024x571.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15607\"  \/>(Mandatory Credit: Imagn Images)<\/p>\n<p>The Miami Heat will look to avoid coming up empty handed on this final three-game road trip of the season in the second night of a back-to-back in Washington. <\/p>\n<p>They are coming off <a href=\"https:\/\/hothothoops.com\/2026\/04\/10\/heat-drop-another-in-toronto-128-114-and-suffer-0-4-season-sweep-versus-raptors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two terrible losses to the Toronto Raptors<\/a>, but can at least go into the play-in tournament with two straight wins with a pair of winnable matchups this weekend\u2014 beginning with the Washington Wizards. The Heat are 3-0 versus the Wizards this season. And they have won all those matchups comfortably with double-digits edges.<\/p>\n<p>However, Miami is still on a downward spiral at the most inopportune time possible. They\u2019ve lost 10 of their last 13 games and have collapsed as a team down the stretch of this regular season rather than earning their way into a top-six seed to avoid the play-in. The Heat have had several chances to improve their seeding positioning, but have continued to come up short when they\u2019ve needed wins the most. <\/p>\n<p>For Washington, they have successfully put together a true tanking season. They are sitting at a 17-63 overall record and the last place 15th seed in the East. In addition, they are currently riding an eight-game losing streak. Miami will have a prime opportunity to see the vision of a potential play-in\/playoff rotation on the floor in a very winnable matchup for themselves. <\/p>\n<p>Injury Report (at the time of this publishing):<\/p>\n<p>Washington Wizards:<\/p>\n<p>Miami Heat:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Projected Starting 5 (subject to change):<\/p>\n<p>Washington Wizards:<\/p>\n<p>Bub Carrington, G<\/p>\n<p>Tre Johnson, G<\/p>\n<p>Bilal Coulibaly, F<\/p>\n<p>Will Riley, F<\/p>\n<p>Tristan Vukcevic, C<\/p>\n<p>Miami Heat:<\/p>\n<p>Davion Mitchell, G<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Herro, G<\/p>\n<p>Pelle Larsson, F<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Wiggins, F<\/p>\n<p>Bam Adebayo, C<\/p>\n<p>Broadcast Info:<\/p>\n<p>Tipoff: 7:00 PM EST<\/p>\n<p>TV: ESPN &amp; FanDuel Sports Network Sun (Eric Reid &amp; John Crotty)<\/p>\n<p>Radio: AM 560 Sports WQAM &amp; The HEAT Radio Network (Jason Jackson)<\/p>\n<p>Spanish Radio: WAQI 710 AM &amp; The HEAT Spanish Radio Network (Jos\u00e9 Pa\u00f1eda)<\/p>\n<p>Come back to Hot Hot Hoops at game time to join our GameThread and chat about the game live with other Heat fans!<\/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":"(Mandatory Credit: Imagn Images) The Miami Heat will look to avoid coming up empty handed on this final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,5594,6,682,468,3892,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-707691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-feature-post","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-washington","12":"tag-washington-wizards","13":"tag-washingtonwizards","14":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116382622468103778","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707691","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=707691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}