The Miami Heat have emerged as a legitimate playoff threat over the past few weeks. They are riding a five-game win streak and winners of 8 of their last 10; now at a 36-29 record overall. This recent postseason push has catapulted Miami up the East standings, as they are currently tied with the Orlando […]
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It may not be a first-round pick, but the Miami Heat are receiving a 2026 second-round pick from the Charlotte Hornets as compensation as a result of the Terry Rozier dispute, Associated Press’ Tim Reynolds first reported Monday. ESPN NBA insider Shams Charania confirmed the report shortly thereafter. According to the Miami Herald’s Anthony Chiang, […]
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Less than 48 hours after a critical eight-point win over the Charlotte Hornets, the Miami Heat stacked their fifth-straight win, this time against the top-seeded Detroit Pistons, earning a 121-110. The final score is deceiving; the score was closer than the game indicated. Heat led by as many as 29 points and were ahead by […]
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The Miami Heat return home to host the top-seeded Detroit Pistons, led by Cade Cunningham, an MVP candidate, on Sunday at 6:00 p.m. EST! Check out our game-thread below! Injury Report (at the time of this publishing): Detroit Pistons: Miami Heat: Projected Starting 5 (subject to change): Detroit Pistons: Miami Heat: Broadcast Info: Come back […]
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For the first one-and-a-half seasons, the Miami Heat’s big man duo of Bam Adebayo and Kel’el Ware struggled to find rhythm together on either end. Last season, their two most frequent lineups ranked in the 42nd and 39th percentile in NET, including the 41st and 18th percentile offensively, according to Cleaning The Glass. There were […]
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Following another significant and thrilling statement win on Friday over the Charlotte Hornets, the Miami Heat face another tough task. They will look to win their fifth straight game back at home versus the top seed Detroit Pistons. Despite the Pistons dominant 45-17 record and the best in the Eastern Conference, they are dealing with […]
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While this Miami Heat season has still largely felt like pulling teeth, they are quietly playing some of their best basketball of the season. Winners of four-straight, seven of their last nine and eight of their last 11, Miami is now six games above .500 (35-29) for the first time since Dec. 4, including a […]
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Behind one of Tyler Herro’s most complete offensive performances of his career, the Miami Heat picked up a huge 128-120 win over the red-hot Charlotte Hornets inside Spectrum Center on Friday night. The Heat’s win extends their current win streak to four, improving them to 11-4 on the second night of back-to-backs this season. More […]
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Injury Report: Miami Heat: Charlotte Hornets: Starting 5: Miami Heat: Charlotte Hornets: Broadcast Info: *** To check out our other content, click here. Follow Hot Hot Hoops on Twitter/X here! Follow Hot Hot Hoops on Instagram here! Subscribe to our YouTube channel here!
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As the Miami Heat continue their playoff push with just 19 games remaining, they are starting to slowly but surely hit their stride. Even with Norman Powell injured, too. Miami is coming off of three straight wins, including winners of seven of their last 10 games. They just swept a 3-0 homestand and will now […]
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Practically 48 hours after the Miami Heat’s frontcourt made history in their 124-98 win over the Brooklyn Nets, they made more history in their second of two-straight against Brooklyn. However, this time, it was a one-man show. A one-man wrecking crew, rather. Heat second-year big Kel’el Ware had his most impactful two-way performance of his […]
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The Miami Heat have continued their winning ways on Thursday amidst this end of season playoff push. They took down the Brooklyn Nets in their second straight matchup at home, as Miami is now riding a three-game winning streak. It is also the Heat’s seventh win out of their last 10 games and will now […]
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This is our GAMETHREAD: Chat live about the game here! Injury Report: Brooklyn Nets: Miami Heat: Starting 5: Brooklyn Nets: Miami Heat: Broadcast Info: *** To check out our other content, click here. Follow Hot Hot Hoops on Twitter/X here! Follow Hot Hot Hoops on Instagram here! Subscribe to our YouTube channel here!
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Miami will look to sweep the season series 3-0 against the Nets to finish off their homestand. (Mandatory credit: Imagn Images) After a dominant 124-98 win over the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday, the Miami Heat will rematch at home for both team’s second straight game. It will be the final of Miami’s three/game homestand before […]
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While each NBA team has until the final day of the regular season to sign players to a standard contract, the same does not apply to two-way contracts. As teams finalize their rosters heading into the final month of the season, teams will have until March 4 to ink players to two-way contracts. The Miami […]
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Death, taxes, the Miami Heat sporting a top-flight defense. Believe it or not, that’s been the trend since Bam Adebayo entered the starting lineup full-time in 2019-20. You can’t refute that the Heat’s three-time All-Star has been indispensable for the team’s defense, which was a top-10 unit in each of the last six seasons entering […]
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While it wasn’t the most aesthetically pleasing brand of basketball, the Miami Heat washed away the tanking Brooklyn Nets, 124-98, Tuesday evening inside Kaseya Center. Miami was led by Bam Adebayo, who scored a game-high 23 points with nine rebounds on 11-of-24 shooting. Adebayo continued his torrid two-month stretch of play, as did Kel’el Ware, […]
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Hoping to build off arguably their biggest win of the season against the Houston Rockets, the Miami Heat encountered the tanking Brooklyn Nets, a team on the opposite end of the scale from their recent counterpart. While it wasn’t always pretty, aesthetically, Miami still pulled away en route to a 124-98 win inside Kaseya Center. […]
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This is our GAMETHREAD: Chat live about the game here! Injury Report: Brooklyn Nets: Miami Heat: Projected Starting 5 (subject to change): Brooklyn Nets: Miami Heat: Broadcast Info: *** To check out our other content, click here. Follow Hot Hot Hoops on Twitter/X here! Follow Hot Hot Hoops on Instagram here! Subscribe to our YouTube channel here!
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The Miami Heat are entering a crucial five-game stretch to make a playoff push, beginning with the first of two straight home matchups against the visiting Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night. Miami is 1-0 against the Nets already this year and will try to sweep their three-game season series by this weekend. The Nets are […]
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There are officially fewer than six weeks left in the 2025-26 regular season, where the Miami Heat have just 21 games left. Miami is still two games back of the Philadelphia 76ers for the sixth-and-final postseason slot, hoping to avoid its fourth-straight play-in. As we enter the final full month of the regular season, what […]
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There are officially fewer than six weeks left in the 2025-26 regular season, where the Miami Heat have just 21 games left. Miami is still two games back of the Philadelphia 76ers for the sixth-and-final postseason slot, hoping to avoid its fourth-straight play-in. As we enter the final full month of the regular season, what […]
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Every organization has its strengths and weaknesses. For the better part of two decades upon arrival, one of Pat Riley and the rest of the Miami Heat front office’s redeeming qualities was acquiring (super)star talent. However, now the Heat’s speciality is drafting and developing said talent. Not all of them turn into stars, sans for […]
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Few players were tougher, physically and mentally, than former MiamI Heat veteran Udonis Haslem. Haslem was never the best player on the Heat, but the OG’s voice was always loud. But in one statistical category, his production spoke volumes as well. Over 4,800 days ago in Novermber of 2012, Haslem broke Alonzo Mourning’s record for […]
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We are in the home stretch of the 2025-26 Miami Heat season. At 32-29, there are just six weeks — and 21 games — left in the season. Since our last power rankings round-up, the status quo has remained the same: Miami is mediocre. In all honesty, that hasn’t changed for the better part of […]
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