PHILADELPHIA (WSVN) — The Miami Heat are gearing up for their Wednesday night match-up against the Philadelphia 76ers. The highly anticipated game between the two teams will decide which one will earn the seventh seed in the Eastern Conference title. 7News cameras captured Miami Heat players warming up at Temple University, Wednesday morning. “You can feel it. It’s that time of year again. Everyone’s excited to be, you know, done with the regular season, so we’re excited,” said Heat guard Tyler Herro. The team’s head coach, Erik Spoelstra, said his team is ready. “We’re looking forward to it ..read more

USA Basketball studied every men’s basketball game it has played for about two decades and a clear trend eventually appeared. When the defense isn’t good enough, the Americans tend to get themselves into trouble. And the team for the Paris Olympics was built with that in mind. LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Bam Adebayo, Devin Booker, Joel Embiid, Jayson Tatum, Anthony Davis, Jrue Holiday, Tyrese Haliburton, Anthony Edwards and Kawhi Leonard were formally announced as members of the U.S. Olympic team on Wednesday — a group with nearly 200,000 NBA points, 84 All-Star Game selections ..read more

PHILADELPHIA (WSVN) — The Miami Heat arrived in Philadelphia on Tuesday evening, one day before they are set to face the Philadelphia 76ers. Even though a loss wouldn’t mean elimination for the Heat, the team is approaching the game as a one-game season. 7News cameras captured the Heat’s final practice match before the big game on Wednesday. “It’s going to be fun, it’s going to be competitive, competitive as always, we’re going to go out there complete and play off,” said Heat center Bam Adebayo. The Heat will play against 76ers in the Seventh-Eighth Eastern Conference play-in game. Head Coach ..read more

MIAMI (AP) — After a 46-win regular season, the Miami Heat still aren’t in the playoffs. It’ll take one more victory to get that job done. And they’ll have two chances, if necessary. Thomas Bryant scored 18 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Jaime Jaquez Jr. added 18 points and the Heat tuned up for a trip to the play-in tournament by beating the Toronto Raptors 118-103 on Sunday. Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro each scored 17 for Miami, while Jimmy Butler scored 15, Caleb Martin 12 and Delon Wright finished with 11 points and five steals for the Heat (46-36). Miami goes to Philadelphia to open the p ..read more

MIAMI (AP) — Nikola Jovic scored 22 points, Jaime Jaquez Jr. had 20 points and nine assists, and the Miami Heat kept hope alive of escaping the play-in tournament by topping the Toronto Raptors 125-103 on Friday night. Bam Adebayo scored 19 points, Tyler Herro scored 18, and Jimmy Butler and Kevin Love each scored 14 for the Heat (45-36). Miami still could get out of the play-in with a win in a rematch against the Raptors on Sunday and some help. It’s the 14th time in Heat history that the team won 45 games in a season; all 13 of the previous squads made the playoffs. RJ Barrett had 35 points ..read more

MIAMI (AP) — Luka Doncic scored 29 points, Kyrie Irving added 25 and the Dallas Mavericks wrapped up the Southwest Division title by beating the Miami Heat 111-92 on Wednesday night. Doncic also had nine rebounds and nine assists for Dallas, which will face the Los Angeles Clippers in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs — that series starting either April 20 or 21. It’ll be the third opening-round matchup between those teams in the last four seasons; the Clippers won each of the first two. Derrick Jones Jr., P.J. Washington and Daniel Gafford all finished with 12 points for Dall ..read more

ATLANTA (AP) — Tyler Herro scored four of his 33 points in the second overtime and the Miami Heat outlasted the Atlanta Hawks 117-111 on Tuesday night. Jimmy Butler had 25 points and nine assists and Nikoa Jovic added 23 points and eight rebounds as the Heat won for the fifth time in seven games. With the win, Miami remained a half-game behind the Philadelphia 76ers, in eighth place in the Eastern Conference standings. Dejounte Murray had 29 points, 13 rebounds and 13 assists in 49 minutes for the Hawks. De’Andre Hunter finished with 23 points and 10 rebounds. The Hawks are in 10th place in th ..read more

A South Florida man whose life was forever changed after he was hit by a Miami Heat player while helping a disabled driver opened up about his long road to recovery, as he prepares to take legal action against the player. Alekxei Pino had his leg amputated back in February. Twenty-two-year-old Alekxei Pino, an employee of the Transportation Security Administration, showed 7News his other leg on Tuesday. “They sliced through my nerves, all the way across,” he said. “This [leg] is shattered, and this one is mangled.” Pino suffered these injuries on Feb. 6, when he was hit by a car and pinned aga ..read more

NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA has acknowledged two officiating mistakes — one wrong call, one missed call — in the final minute of Miami’s 117-115 loss at Indiana on Sunday, a defeat that helped send the Heat into the No. 8 spot in the Eastern Conference going into the season’s final week. Miami’s Tyler Herro, the league said, was fouled by Indiana’s T.J. McConnell while shooting a 3-pointer with about 55 seconds remaining. No foul was called on the play. And a foul called by official Marat Kogut against Heat center Bam Adebayo with 17.1 seconds left was made in error ..read more

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Myles Turner finished with 22 points and 13 rebounds, T.J. McConnell added 22 points and the Indiana Pacers hung on to strengthen their playoff prospects with a 117-115 victory over the Miami Heat on Sunday. The Pacers have won four of five to take a 1 1/2-game lead over the Heat for the Eastern Conference’s sixth and final guaranteed playoff spot. Jimmy Butler had 27 points, seven rebounds and seven assists for the Heat. Tyler Herro scored 21 points but had a made free throw erased because of a lane violation on Kevin Love with 3.6 seconds to go and the Heat down two ..read more