The Miami Heat Are Without A Key Reserve Tonight Against Boston Celtics In Game 3

Shandel Richardson | Apr 27, 2024

Apr 24, 2024; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Miami Heat guard Delon Wright (4) warms up before game two against Boston Celtics - David Butler II/USA TODAY Sports / David Butler II-USA TODAY Sports

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The Miami Heat will play tonight without reserve Delon Wright against the Boston Celtics in Game of the Eastern Conference playoffs.

Wright is out dealing with a personal matter. He had 17 points in the Game 1 loss in Boston.

Here's the game preview:

Time: 6 p.m.

Where: Kaseya Center, Miami

TV: TNT

Betting line: Heat +9

Vitals: The Heat and Celtics met three times this regular season with Boston winning each matchup. The Heat are 53-83 all-time versus the Celtics during the regular season, including 30-40 in home games and 23-43 in road games. The teams enter this postseason having faced each
other six times in the playoffs, including four times in the Eastern Conference Finals (2012, 2020, 2022, 2023), once in the Semifinals (2011) and once in the First Round (2010). The HEAT has recorded a 4-2 playoff series record against Boston over that span, resulting in a 20-17 postseason record against the Celtics .This is the fourth time in five years the Heat and Celtics have met in the playoffs

PROJECTED STARTERS

HEAT

G Caleb Martin

G Tyler Herro

C Bam Adebayo

F Jaime Jaquez

F Nikola Jovic

CELTICS

F Jayson Tatum

F Jaylen Brown

C Kristaps Porzingis

G Jrue Holiday

G Derrick White

INJURY REPORT

HEAT

Josh Richardson: Out - Right Shoulder Surgery

Jimmy Butler: Out - Knee

Terry Rozier: Out - Neck Spasms

Delon Wright: Out - Personal matter

CELTICS

Luke Kornet: Out - Calf

Derrick White: Probable - Ankle

Jrue Holiday: Probable - Knee

Heat forward Caleb Martin on winning Game 2: "I just think it speaks more to the mentality of the group. We've been in these situations many times before. Just staying with it through bad games, through slumps ... A lot of it is a mentality thing. We've always been able to do stuff like that. The approach is there."

Published Apr 27, 2024

SHANDEL RICHARDSON

Shandel has covered the NBA since 2010, with previous stops at The Athletic and South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He has covered six NBA Finals, one Super Bowl, the NCAA basketball tournament. He has also been a beat writer for the Miami Hurricanes and contributed on every major beat in South Florida since 2003, including the Miami Dolphins and Miami Marlins. He can also be read in the Sportsbook Review for gambling coverage from around the NBA. A native of Bloomington, Illinois, Shandel attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He's also worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Kansas City Star. TWITTER: @ShandelRich EMAIL: shandelrich@gmail.com You can subscribe to our YouTube channel here Follow all of our Miami Heat coverage on Facebook here