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How To Watch Miami Heat Vs. Chicago Bulls Friday, Injury Report, Lineups, Betting Lines

The Miami Heat play the Chicago Bulls in play-in tournament, with the winner advancing to play Milwaukee Bucks in first round of Eastern Conference playoffs
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How To Watch Miami Heat Vs. Chicago Bulls Friday, Injury Report, Lineups, Betting Lines
How To Watch Miami Heat Vs. Chicago Bulls Friday, Injury Report, Lineups, Betting Lines

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Miami HeatChicago Bulls

Game time: 7 p.m., ET

Where: Kaseya Center

TV: TNT

Betting line: Heat -5

VITALS: The Miami Heat and Bulls meet in the Play-In Tournament. They met three times during the regular season, with Chicago winning the series, 3-0, after Miami won the serie, 4-0 last season. The Heat are 62-63 all-time versus the Bulls during the regular season, including 36-27 in home games and 26-36 in road games ... For the Heat, Kyle Lowry (knee) and Gabe Vincent (hip) are questionable, and Nikola Jovic (back) is out. For the Bulls, Lonzo Ball (knee) is out. 

PROJECTED STARTERS

HEAT

G Tyler Herro

G Gabe Vincent

C Bam Adebayo

F Max Strus

F Jimmy Butler

BULLS

F DeMar DeRozan

F Alex Caruso 

C Nikola Vucevic

G Zach LaVine

G Patrick Beverley

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Heat coach Erik Spoelstra on the game: "This is going to have a different feel than Atlanta, for sure. I wouldn’t even just say the starters, but who we bring in off the bench might be a little bit different than what we used against Atlanta.”

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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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