Miami Heat NBA Play-In Tournament Betting
The Miami Heat are in the NBA Playoffs for the fifth consecutive season. Miami lost the NBA Finals in both 2023 and 2020. Those Miami teams were built on strong defense and opportunistic scoring. This year, that formula, while still effective, was not as dominant as in past seasons. Jimmy Butler supplies what little offense that Miami has. Miami’s lack of secondary scoring remains its biggest challenge to overcome. Miami was a frustrating team for gamblers as it struggled to stay out of the red. Despite its mediocre regular season, Miami will draw bargain hunters based on past success.
2024 NBA Championship Betting Odds
Miami Heat NBA Betting Lines
Miami Heat +4.5
Philadelphia 76ers -4.5
Total: 207.5
Money Line: Miami +166, Philadelphia -194
The Miami Heat are 46-36 straight up, 40-40-2 against the spread, and 35-47 over/under the total. Late on, Miami has covered four out of their last six games. While the Heat have gone over the total in nine of its previous ten matchups. Miami is 8th in the Eastern Conference playoff standings. Miami is 18 games behind the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference playoff race.
Miami has NBA metrics of 26th for scoring offense, 22nd for field goal percentage, 12th for 3-point field goal percentage, 5th for free throw percentage, and 26th for offensive rebounding. On defense, the Heat have NBA metrics of 3rd for scoring defense, 10th for field goal percentage permitted, 5th for 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 11th for defensive rebounding.
The Heat qualified for the NBA play-in round. The Philadelphia 76ers host the Heat on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Tipoff time is 7 p.m. ET, with television coverage on ESPN.
Miami Heat Key Players
SF Jimmy Butler was the 30th overall pick of the Chicago Bulls out of Marquette in the 2011 NBA Draft from Marquette. Butler led Miami this year with 22.9 points, 5.9 rebounds, and 5.3 assists per contest, Butler has averaged over 21 points per game the past three seasons. Last year, Butler averaged 26.9 points, 6.5 rebounds, and 5.9 assists per contest. Butler has a career average of 21.3 points per game in the postseason. He is a 6-time NBA All-Star.
C Bam Adebayo is a 3-time NBA All-Star. This year, Adebayo averaged 20.4 points and 9.2 rebounds per contest. In the playoffs, Adebayo has averaged 17.9 points and 9.9 rebounds per contest.
Miami Heat Head Coach
Head coach Eric Spoelstra is in the elite class of NBA bench bosses. The one-time wonderkid is now age 53 and a 2-time NBA champion. Spoelstra has been the head coach of the Heat since 2008-09 and is a disciple of former Heat coach and current team President Pat Riley, a Hall of Fame legend. Spoelstra has a career regular season record of 749-527. In the playoffs, he is 109-75.
Season-by-Season Record (Last 6)
| SEASON |
GAMES |
WINS |
LOSSES |
FINISH |
PLAYOFFS |
| 2023-24 |
82 |
46 |
36 |
2nd, Southeast |
TBD |
| 2022–23 |
82 |
44 |
38 |
1st, Southeast |
Lost in NBA Finals, 1–4 (Nuggets) |
| 2021–22 |
82 |
53 |
29 |
1st, Southeast |
Lost in Conference finals, 3–4 (Celtics) |
| 2020–21 |
72 |
40 |
32 |
2nd, Southeast |
Lost in First Round, 0–4 (Bucks) |
| 2019–20 |
73 |
44 |
29 |
1st, Southeast |
Lost in NBA Finals, 2–4 (Lakers) |
| 2018–19 |
82 |
39 |
43 |
3rd, Southeast |
Did not qualify |
Miami Heat History
The Miami Heat have had more success than any other professional sports team in South Florida. This is the one team largely supported by the fickle fans of the Miami metro area, and the Heat have been very competitive over the last two decades.
Dwyane Wade is the most accomplished player in the history of the franchise. He was taken with the 5th overall pick in the 2003 NBA Draft, and he was a 13-time All-Star and eight-time All-NBA selection that led the Heat to their first NBA title in 2006. Veterans Shaquille O’Neal, Alonzo Mourning, Gary Payton, and Antoine Walker played crucial roles. Still, Wade was the superstar, with franchise favorite Udonis Haslem coming into his own.
Of course, perhaps the best thing that Wade did was convince LeBron James and Chris Bosh to come to Miami in the summer of 2010. That made the Heat the preseason favorites to win the NBA title for four straight years. They could not live up to the lofty expectations of King James, who talked about winning seven championships during the introductory press conference. Still, they did win the Eastern Conference four straight times. Miami won back-to-back NBA titles in 2012 and 2013, yet the Heat needed a miracle three-pointer from Ray Allen to win the second title.
Miami wasn’t truly competitive for a few years after LeBron James left the team, but the Heat surprised everyone by winning the East in 2020. Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo proved to be an excellent combination, and Miami received solid three-point shooting from Duncan Robinson, Jae Crowder, and Tyler Herro. The Heat nearly made the NBA Finals again in 2022, but they lost to the Boston Celtics in seven games.
NBA Teams
Eastern Conference - Atlantic
Eastern Conference - Central
Eastern Conference - Southeast
Western Conference - Northwest
Western Conference - Pacific
Western Conference - Southwest
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