The Miami Heat look to bounce back against the Phoenix Suns on Friday at 10:00 p.m. ET, which will be their fifth-and-final game of their five-game road trip, their longest of the season. The game will be nationally-televised on ESPN.
The Heat are coming off arguably their worst loss of the season against the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday. Miami lost 112-109 to an inferior Lakers squad without LeBron James, Anthony Davis and Lonnie Walker IV, failing to resemble the hard-nosed, gritty Heat team we all are accustomed to seeing.
Bam Adebayo and Jimmy Butler still combined for 57 points — including Adebayo recording his third-straight 30-point game — but the sense of urgency lacked elsewhere.