{"id":671053,"date":"2026-03-21T08:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/671053\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T08:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:14:22","slug":"miami-takes-on-houston-on-3-game-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/671053\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami takes on Houston on 3-game slide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat<\/a> (38-32, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Houston Rockets<\/a> (42-27, fourth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Houston; Saturday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Rockets -2; over\/under is 229.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Miami heads into the matchup against Houston as losers of three straight games.<\/p>\n

The Rockets have gone 24-10 in home games. Houston is fourth in the league giving up just 109.8 points per game while holding opponents to 46.0% shooting.<\/p>\n

The Heat are 15-19 in road games. Miami is 18-25 against opponents with a winning record.<\/p>\n

The Rockets score 113.9 points per game, 3.2 fewer points than the 117.1 the Heat give up. The Heat average 13.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.0 more made shot on average than the 12.3 per game the Rockets allow.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the second time this season. The Heat won the last matchup 115-105 on Feb. 28, with Bam Adebayo<\/a> scoring 24 points in the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Kevin Durant<\/a> is averaging 25.7 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.5 assists for the Rockets. Amen Thompson is averaging 21 points, 8.6 rebounds and 5.3 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kel’el Ware<\/a> is averaging 11.3 points and 9.4 rebounds for the Heat. Adebayo is averaging 26.8 points and 8.2 rebounds while shooting 43.4% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rockets: 5-5, averaging 110.0 points, 47.0 rebounds, 24.6 assists, 8.8 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 47.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Heat: 7-3, averaging 122.5 points, 44.8 rebounds, 28.0 assists, 8.6 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 47.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.8 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rockets: Jae’Sean Tate: out (knee), Fred VanVleet<\/a>: out for season (acl), Steven Adams<\/a>: out for season (ankle).<\/p>\n

Heat: Jaime Jaquez Jr.: out (hip), Pelle Larsson: day to day (foot), Simone Fontecchio<\/a>: day to day (back), Andrew Wiggins<\/a>: out (toe).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Heat (38-32, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Houston Rockets (42-27, fourth in the Western Conference) Houston;…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[25925,46139,255655,8608,4345,3136,9277,3359,3120,37352,190436,8610,358,3187],"class_list":["post-671053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-andrew-wiggins","tag-bam-adebayo","tag-event_preview","tag-fred-vanvleet","tag-houston","tag-houston-rockets","tag-kelel-ware","tag-kevin-durant","tag-miami-heat","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-simone-fontecchio","tag-steven-adams","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116266170309309364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}