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Miami Heat Using Starting Lineup For Game 4 Against New York Knicks

The Miami Heat face the New York Knicks in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals
Miami Heat Using Starting Lineup For Game 4 Against New York Knicks
Miami Heat Using Starting Lineup For Game 4 Against New York Knicks

The Miami Heat starters for Game 4 against the New York Knicks are the same: 

Max Strus

Kevin Love 

Bam Adebayo

Jimmy Butler

Gabe Vincent

Here's the game preview:

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

Where: Kaseya Center

TV: TNT

Betting line: Heat -4.5

VITALS: The Miami Heat and Knicks met four times this regular season with New York winning the season series 3-1, with each game decided by single digits. Miami is 65-69 all-time versus the Knicks during the regular season, including 36-30 in home games and 29-39 in road games. The teams enter this postseason having faced each other five times in the playoffs, including three times in the First Round (1998, 1999, 2012) and twice in the Semifinals (1997, 2000). Additionally, the current postseason series marks as just the third time in NBA postseason history both teams are seeded five and below, joining only the 1994 series between the Jazz (5th seed) vs. Nuggets (8th seed) and the 1987 series between the Rockets (6th seed) vs. the SuperSonics (7th seed). ... For the Heat, Jimmy Butler (ankle) and Caleb Martin (back) are questionable, Haywood Highsmith (knee) is probable and Victor Oladipo (knee) and Tyler Herro (hand) are out. For the Knicks, Immanuel Quickley (ankle) is doubtful.

PROJECTED STARTERS

HEAT

G Max Strus

G Gabe Vincent

C Bam Adebayo

F Kevin Love

F Jimmy Butler

KNICKS

F Julius Randle

F RJ Barrett

C Mitchell Robinson

G Jalen Brunson

G Josh Hart

QUOTABLE

Heat guard Kyle Lowry on Game 3 victory: “You've got to win games different ways. In the playoffs, like I've said many a time and for many years now, every game is seriously different. And this is one of those games where we held them down."

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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