10:10 pm
April 13

Heat @ Suns

Who will WIN this matchup?

Miami Heat (28-25)

@ Phoenix Suns (37-15)

 

Current odds:

Miami Heat: (+145)

Phoenix Suns: (-165)

 

• The spread for the game is Phoenix by 3.5 points.

• Fresh off shutting down Damian Lillard in one of their best defensive performances of the season, the Miami Heat will try to contain the hot-shooting Suns on Tuesday night in Phoenix. The Heat held Lillard, one of the NBA’s top scorers (28.7 points per game), to only 12 points and three made shots from the field in a 107-98 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday.

• Miami’s defense contributed to 17 turnovers by the Blazers and prevailed in the first of a four-game road trip. Bam Adebayo finished with 22 points and Jimmy Butler had 20 points and four steals to lead the Heat, who won for the sixth time in their past seven games. Kendrick Nunn also had a solid performance on the defensive end and scored 15 points starting in place of Victor Oladipo, who is out indefinitely with right knee soreness. Nunn did not play in the Heat’s previous six games following Miami’s trade for Oladipo.

• Devin Booker, who is averaging 26.0 points per game, presents the next major challenge for Miami’s defense. Booker finished with 24 points against the Houston Rockets on Monday, and had 23 points in the Suns’ 110-100 win over the Heat on March 23 in Miami. But a familiar face for the Heat was the one who helped Phoenix tie an NBA record with 18 3-pointers in the first half of its 126-120 victory over the Rockets.

• The Suns, who have won 12 of their past 14 games, set a franchise record with 25 3-pointers overall on 45 attempts. But as prolific as Phoenix was offensively, it allowed the Rockets to stay in the game as they hit 17 3s themselves and shot 40.5 percent from long distance.

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