Milwaukee Bucks at Miami Heat Preview

Game time: 7:30 p.m., ET
TV: TNT, Bally Sun Sports
Betting line: Heat +2
VITALS: :The Heat and Bucks met three times this regular season with Milwaukee winning the series, 2-1. The HEAT are 71-47 all-time versus the Bucks during the regular season, including 37-21 in home games and 34-26 in road games. Additionally, the teams enter this postseason having faced each other two times during the playoffs with Miami winning both of those series, 4-0 in the 2013 first round and 4-1 last season in the Eastern Conference semifinals ... Guard Kendrick Nunn has hit a three-point field goal in his last six straight games ... The Bucks’ 34-point win in Game 2 was their fourth-largest in playoff history and their third-largest home playoff win of all-time ... For the Heat, Victor Oladipo (knee) is out.
HEAT
G Duncan Robinson
G Kendrick Nunn
C Bam Adebayo
F Jimmy Butler
F Trevor Ariza
BUCKS
G Jrue Holiday
G Donte DiVincenzo
C Brook Lopez
F Khris Middleton
F Giannis Antetokounmpo
QUOTABLE
Heat forward Duncan Robinson: “Obviously after you’ve dropped the first two, the sense of urgency increases come Game 3. Take a look at the history or just the fact we have a good team on our home floor and the opportunity to play in front of a packed place. The urgency’s high. Come playoff time, everything feels like a must-win in many cases. We’re certainly preparing like it is, that’s for sure.”
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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