Miami Heat Using Same Starting Lineup Tonight Against Denver Nuggets In Game 5 Of NBA Finals

The Miami Heat are using the same starting lineup tonight against the Denver Nuggets in Game 5 of the NBA Finals.

They are: Max Strus, Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo, Kevin Love and Gabe Vincent.

Here's the game preview:

Game time: 8:30 p.m., ET

Where: Ball Arena

TV: ABC

Betting line: Heat +9

VITALS: The Miami Heat and Nuggets met twice this regular season with Denver winning both matchups, each by five points or less. Miami is 34-38 all-time versus Denver during the regular season, including 20-15 in home games and 14-23 in road games. The teams enter this postseason having never faced each other in NBA Finals history with the Nuggets making their first appearance. The HEAT enter the series marking their seventh NBA Finals appearance, recording a 3-3 series record with NBA Championships in 2006, 2012 and 2013.For the Heat, Victor Oladipo (knee) is out and Tyler Herro (hand) is questionable.

PROJECTED STARTERS

HEAT

G Max Strus

G Gabe Vincent

C Bam Adebayo

F Kevin Love

F Jimmy Butler

NUGGETS

F Michael Porter Jr

F Aaron Gordon

C Nikola Jokic

G Jamal Murray

G Kentavious Caldwell-Pope

QUOTABLE

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra on Game 5: “They love playing in these kinds of environments. The crowd’s gonna be great tomorrow. Everybody’s counting us out, we’re used to that. But ultimately it has to be decided between those four lines. The crowd’s not gonna decide it, the narratives aren’t gonna decide it, the analytics about being down 3-1 ain’t gonna decide it. It’s gonna be decided by whose game can get to whose game, and ultimately win at the end. That’s what our guys love, and that’s what we’re looking forward to.”

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