Eric Spoelstra’s team suffered two defeats in a row from Brooklyn and Toronto in recent meetings. The Heat can not improve their game this season in any way. In the last match they lost only 4 points. Now the team is in 13th place in the conference and perhaps its main problem is injuries. Because of them Leonard and Harkles will not play for sure, but the fate of Butler, Bradley, Silva and Hiro is still in question. The first two are sick and will probably miss this match.
In the last match Milwaukee was predicted to smash Atlanta (129:115). Before that, the “reindeer” suffered two defeats, losing to Brooklyn (123:125) and the Lakers (106:113). As a rule, after such failures Budenholzer’s wards perform much better. By the way, they confirmed this in their last match. In the standings of the East the “deer” still occupy the second place. They are losing a lot this season, so they let Philadelphia go ahead. The Bucks have two fewer wins than the Pennsylvania squad.