How To Watch Miami Heat Vs. Milwaukee Bucks Today, Lineups, Injury Report, Betting Lines Etc

The Miami Heat play Milwaukee Bucks today in Game 1 of the first round in the Eastern Conference playoffs

Game time: 5:30 p.m., ET

Where: Fiserv Forum

TV: TNT

Betting line: Heat +9.5

VITALS: The Miami Heat and Bucks met four times this regular season with the teams splitting the series, 2-2, as each squad won on their home court. Miami is 75-51 all-time versus Milwaukee during the regular season, including 41-21 in home games and 34-30 in road games. Additionally, the teams enter this postseason having faced each other three times in the playoffs, including two times in the First Round (2013, 2021) and once in the Semifinals (2020), with Miami holding a 2-1 postseason series lead over Milwaukee. ... For the Heat, Kyle Lowry (knee) and Gabe Vincent (hip) are questionable, and Nikola Jovic (back) is out. 

PROJECTED STARTERS

HEAT

G Tyler Herro

G Gabe Vincent

C Bam Adebayo

F Max Strus

F Jimmy Butler

BUCKS

F Giannis Antetokounmpo

F Khris Middleton 

C Brook Lopez

G Jrue Holiday 

G Grayson Allen 

QUOTABLE

Heat forward Jimmy Butler: "We've got to play right. We've got to play some good basketball. We've got to do all the little things correct ... Just go out there and compete. I think that's what we do a good job if, is competing. Just be the hardest-playing team."

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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