Charlotte Hornets @ Miami Heat

Preseason

1-3, 1-1 Away

103

1-3, 1-1 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Hornets CHA	24	29	25	25	103
Heat MIA	27	20	30	27	104

Miami HeatHeatMIA

5-1, 3-0 Home

104

5-1, 3-0 Home

Charlotte Hornets

starters
Miles BridgesM. Bridges#0
Jalen McDanielsJ. McDaniels#6
P.J. WashingtonP.J. Washington#25
Cody MartinC. Martin#11
LaMelo BallL. Ball#2
bench
Arnoldas KulbokaA. Kulboka#98
Kai JonesK. Jones#23
Wes IwunduW. Iwundu#9
JT ThorJ. Thor#21
Nick RichardsN. Richards#14
Vernon Carey Jr.V. Carey Jr.#22
Ish SmithI. Smith#10
James BouknightJ. Bouknight#5
Cam McGriffC. McGriff
Gordon HaywardG. Hayward#20
Mason PlumleeM. Plumlee#24
Scottie LewisS. Lewis
Terry RozierT. Rozier#3
Kelly Oubre Jr.K. Oubre Jr.#12
Jalen CrutcherJ. Crutcher
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
31	22	8-16	4-8	2-2	10	6	1	0	2	1	9	1	+6
32	6	2-4	0-1	2-2	7	0	1	0	0	1	6	2	+6
20	9	3-9	2-6	1-2	5	0	2	1	1	0	5	6	+4
31	15	6-9	3-4	0-0	5	3	1	3	1	1	4	1	+15
26	19	7-14	2-8	3-3	8	9	3	1	0	2	6	4	+10
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-7
7	4	2-3	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	-10
16	2	1-3	0-1	0-0	2	1	1	0	0	0	2	1	-9
5	0	0-3	0-2	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	-12
16	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	2	0	3	0	1	0	2	2	-2
8	2	1-3	0-0	0-0	3	1	0	0	0	1	2	0	+8
19	10	5-11	0-1	0-1	3	4	0	1	1	1	2	1	-4
25	14	5-10	1-5	3-3	1	1	5	0	0	0	1	1	-10
DNP-NOT WITH TEAM
DNP-HEALTH & SAFETY PROTOCOLS
DNP-HEALTH & SAFETY PROTOCOLS
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-LEFT ANKLE SPRAIN
DNP-RIGHT ANKLE SPRAIN
DNP-NOT WITH TEAM
	103	40-86	12-37	11-13	48	25	17	6	7	8	40	21
		47%	32%	85%

Miami Heat

starters
P.J. TuckerP.J. Tucker#17
Caleb MartinC. Martin#16
Duncan RobinsonD. Robinson#55
Bam AdebayoB. Adebayo#13
Kyle LowryK. Lowry#7
bench
Markieff MorrisM. Morris#8
DJ StewartStewart Jr.#18
Dewayne DedmonD. Dedmon#21
Omer YurtsevenO. Yurtseven#77
Micah PotterM. Potter#20
Gabe VincentG. Vincent#2
Max StrusM. Strus#31
Marcus GarrettM. Garrett#0
Tyler HerroT. Herro#14
Javonte SmartJ. Smart#15
Udonis HaslemU. Haslem#40
Jimmy Butler IIIButler#22
KZ OkpalaK. Okpala#11
Victor OladipoV. Oladipo#4
Dru SmithD. Smith#12
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
23	8	3-6	2-2	0-0	5	1	0	0	0	2	3	2	+1
15	3	1-5	0-2	1-1	3	2	0	0	1	0	3	1	+7
27	12	4-10	3-9	1-1	2	3	2	0	1	0	2	1	0
26	18	8-14	0-0	2-3	5	1	1	0	1	2	3	1	0
26	15	5-12	4-8	1-3	3	5	2	3	0	0	3	3	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
20	11	5-8	1-3	0-0	6	2	1	0	0	1	5	1	-10
6	3	1-2	1-1	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	+10
14	0	0-2	0-0	0-0	3	0	2	0	0	0	3	4	-9
7	8	2-3	0-0	4-6	8	0	0	0	0	4	4	1	+10
3	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	+10
17	3	1-4	0-3	1-2	1	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	-12
19	8	3-5	2-4	0-0	3	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	-9
6	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	5	1	1	0	0	0	1	+12
27	7	3-15	0-7	1-1	3	2	1	1	0	0	3	1	-18
5	6	2-5	1-3	1-1	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	+13
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COLD
DNP-RIGHT ACHILLES SORENESS
DNP-RIGHT KNEE REHAB
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	104	39-93	14-42	12-18	46	23	12	5	4	12	34	18
		42%	33%	67%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Matchups

CHA

MIA wins season

4-0

MIA

Game 1@ MIA

Final

114

Game 2@ CHA

Final

104

107

Game 3@ CHA

Final/2OT

111

115

Game 4@ MIA

Final

144

Game Information

Miami, FL

Referee:Marat Kogut

Referee:Ben Taylor

Referee:Evan Scott

Eastern Conference

Southeast	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Atlanta	46	36	.561	-	L1
Orlando	45	37	.549	1	L1
Charlotte	44	38	.537	2	W1
Miami	43	39	.524	3	W2
Washington	17	65	.207	29	L10

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