Miami Heat at Toronto Raptors Preview
Game time: 7:30 p.m., ET
TV: Fox Sports Sun
Betting line: Heat -4
Vitals: The Heat and Raptors meet for the first of three matchups in the first half of the regular season. Last season, Miami won the season series, 2-1. The HEAT is 54-35 all-time versus Toronto during the regular season, including 32-15 in home games and 22-20 in road games ... January marks as the month that Miami faces the most opponents (12) that made the playoffs last year ... Second-year forward KZ Okpala is making his third straight start ... Forward Duncan Robinson has connected on multiple three-point field goals in seven consecutive games ... Jimmy Butler and Avery Bradley did not make the trip because of COVID-19. Guard Tyler Herro (back) is questionable.
Projected starting lineups:
HEAT
G Duncan Robinson
G Goran Dragic
C Bam Adebayo
F Kelly Olynyk
F KZ Okpala
RAPTORS
G Kyle Lowry
G Fred VanVleet
C Aron Baynes
F Pascal Siakam
F OG Anunoby
QUOTABLE
Heat coach Erik Spoelstra: “I just know it’s unlike any other season that we’ve all been a part of. So I don’t know how it is going to play out. I think you do have to acknowledge that it is different. I think it also is important to not to make an excuse for it. You have to be able to find a way, collectively, to manage through the unknown, the uncertainty, the unpredictability."
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