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How To Watch Miami Heat-Charlotte Hornets Saturday, Lineups, Injury Report, Betting Lines

Shandel Richardson

Oct 23, 2024; Houston, Texas, USA; Charlotte Hornets guard LaMelo Ball (1) celebrates after scoring during the game against the Houston Rockets at Toyota Center. Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-Imagn Images
Oct 23, 2024; Houston, Texas, USA; Charlotte Hornets guard LaMelo Ball (1) celebrates after scoring during the game against the Houston Rockets at Toyota Center. Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-Imagn Images / Troy Taormina-Imagn Images
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Game time: 7 pm., ET

Where: Spectrum Center, Charlotte

TV: FanDuel Sports Network

Betting line: N/A

VITALS: The Heat and Hornets meet for the first of four matchups this regular season as tonight also marks as Charlotte’s home opener. Last
season, Miami swept the series, 4-0, and has now won 11 of the last 13 overall against the Hornets. The Heat are 77-48 all-time versus Charlotte
during the regular season, including 45-18 in home games and 32-30 in road games.

PROJECTED STARTERS

HEAT

G Terry Rozier

G Tyler Herro

C Bam Adebayo

F Jimmy Butler

F Nikola Jovic

HORNETS

F Cody Martin

F Miles Bridges

C Nick Richards 

G LaMelo Ball

G Tre Mann

INJUY REPORT

HEAT

Josh Richardson: Out - Foot

HORNETS

Josh Green: Questionable - Achilles

DaQuan Jeffries: Out - Hand

Brandon Miller: Out - Glute

Mark Williams: Out - Foot

Tidjane Salaun: Questionable - Finger

QUOTABLE

Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo on the season opening loss to the Orlando Magic: “We played bad. It’s not really anything to that. I mean, that’s, that’s as simple as I can make it. It’s embarrassing, especially on a night like this for the Godfather Riley. "For us, it’s short term memory, I know it’s the beginning of the season, but we don’t want to create this as like a ‘getting used to’ thing. For us, it’s win or misery.”

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SHANDEL RICHARDSON

Shandel has covered the NBA since 2010, with previous stops at The Athletic and South Florida Sun-Sentinel.  He has covered six NBA Finals, one Super Bowl, the NCAA basketball tournament. He has also been a beat writer for the Miami Hurricanes and contributed on every major beat in South Florida since 2003, including the Miami Dolphins and Miami Marlins. He can also be read in the Sportsbook Review for gambling coverage from around the NBA. A native of Bloomington, Illinois, Shandel attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He's also worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Kansas City Star.  TWITTER: @ShandelRich EMAIL: shandelrich@gmail.com You can subscribe to our YouTube channel here Follow all of our Miami Heat coverage on Facebook here