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Miami Heat Using Same Starting Lineup Against Boston Celtics In Game 2 Of Eastern Conference Finals

The Miami Heat and Boston Celtics play tonight in Game 2 of Eastern Conference finals

Shandel Richardson

Miami Heat Using Same Starting Lineup Against Boston Celtics In Game 2 Of Eastern Conference Finals
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The Miami Heat are using the same starting lineup against the Boston Celtics in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals. 

They are Max Strus, Gabe Vincent, Bam Adebayo, Jimmy Butler and Kevin Love. The Heat lead 1-0 in the best-of-7 series. 

Game time: 8:30 p.m., ET

Where: TD Garden

TV: TNT

Betting line: Heat +8.5

VITALS: The Miami Heat and Celtics met four times this regular season with the teams splitting the series, 2-2. Miami is 53-80 all-time versus Boston during the regular season, including 30-38 in home games and 23-42 in road games. The teams enter this postseason having faced each other five times in the playoffs, including three times in the East Finals (2012, 2020, 2022), once in the Semifinals (2011) and once in the First Round (2010). The HEAT has recorded a 3-2 playoff series record against the Celtics over that span. For the Heat, Cody Zeller (head) is questionable and Victor Oladipo (knee) and Tyler Herro (hand) are out. For the Celtics, Danilo Gallinari (knee) is out.

PROJECTED STARTERS

HEAT

G Max Strus

G Gabe Vincent

C Bam Adebayo

F Kevin Love

F Jimmy Butler

CELTICS

F Jayson Tatum

F Al Horford

C Robert Williams III

G Jaylen Brown

G Marcus Smart

QUOTABLE

Celtics forward Jaylen Brown on Game 1 loss: "It's a choice. It's a decision. Just come out and play with a different mentality. We came out too cool. It was just almost like we were just playing a regular-season game. It's the Eastern Conference finals. Like, come on. We've got to play with more intensity than we did today. We've just got to be better, including me."

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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

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