Sun Sentinel Palm Beach Edition

Heat at Nets

- — Ira Winderman

When/Where: 7:30 p.m., Barclays Center, Brooklyn, N.Y. TV: Fox Sports Sun. Radio: 790-AM, 106.3-FM, 710-AM (Spanish), 1140-AM (Spanish).

Scouting report: This is third game of the four-game season series that concludes March 31 at AmericanAi­rlines Arena . ... The Heat won the season’s first meeting 101-89 in Mexico City, a game that counted as a Nets home game. The Heat got 20 points apiece from Goran Dragic and Tyler Johnson, committing only six turnovers . ... The Nets then humiliated the Heat 111-87 Dec. 29 at AmericanAi­rlines Arena, when the Heat shot just .337 from the field and 3 of 26 on 3-pointers . ... That Nets victory snapped a six-game Heat winning streak in the series . ... The Heat have won their last six games in Brooklyn . ... The game is the third on a five-game trip for the Heat and opens a back-to-back set that concludes Saturday in Charlotte . ... The Heat are coming off Wednesday’s 106-101 victory in Milwaukee, their eighth victory in their last nine games . ... The Nets are coming off Wednesday’s 100-95 loss to the visiting Spurs, with six losses in their last seven games . ... The game concludes a three-game homestand for the Nets, with a five-game trip to follow . ... Dion Waiters (ankle), Rodney McGruder (leg) and Okaro White (foot) are out for the Heat, with Tyler Johnson (ankle) doubtful and A.J. Hammons on G League assignment . ... For the Nets, D’Angelo Russell (knee) is questionab­le, with Jeremy Lin (knee) out, and Milton Doyle, James Webb III and Isaiah Whitehead on G League assignment.

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