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Kevin Love Moves Into Miami Heat Starting Lineup For Game 3 Against Milwaukee Bucks

The Miami Heat play host in Game 3 to the Milwaukee Bucks, who are without the injured Giannis Antetokounpo
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Kevin Love Moves Into Miami Heat Starting Lineup For Game 3 Against Milwaukee Bucks
Kevin Love Moves Into Miami Heat Starting Lineup For Game 3 Against Milwaukee Bucks

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Miami Heat forward Kevin Love is set to start in the frontcourt alongside Bam Adebayo and Jimmy Butler. 

Love replaces Duncan Robinson, who started Game 2 in place of Tyler Herro. The other starters are Max Strus and Gabe Vincent. 

Here's the preview for tonight's Game 3:

Here's the game preview:

Game time: 7:30 p.m., ET

Where: Kaseya Center

TV: NBA TV

Betting line: Heat +5.5

VITALS: The Miami Heat and Bucks met four times this regular season with the teams splitting the series, 2-2, as each squad won on their home court. Miami is 75-51 all-time versus Milwaukee during the regular season, including 41-21 in home games and 34-30 in road games. Additionally, the teams enter this postseason having faced each other three times in the playoffs, including two times in the First Round (2013, 2021) and once in the Semifinals (2020), with Miami holding a 2-1 postseason series lead over Milwaukee. ... For the Heat, Kyle Lowry (knee) is questionable, and Nikola Jovic (back) and Tyler Herro (hand) are out. For the Bucks, Giannis Antetokounmpo (back) and Wesley Matthews (calf) are out.

PROJECTED STARTERS

HEAT

G Duncan Robinson

G Gabe Vincent

C Bam Adebayo

F Max Strus

F Jimmy Butler

BUCKS

F Giannis Antetokounmpo

F Khris Middleton

C Brook Lopez

G Jrue Holiday

G Grayson Allen

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Milwaukee Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer on Giannis Antetokounmpo's status: "He's continued to improve. But organizationally, talking and working with him and the sports performance group, a decision was made. We'll continue to monitor him, expect for him to improve and still continue to be optimistic that soon he'll be ready to play."

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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

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