{"id":432349,"date":"2025-03-11T08:37:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T07:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=432349"},"modified":"2025-03-11T08:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T07:37:22","slug":"miami-heat-blow-another-late-lead-third-collapse-in-nine-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/miami-heat-blow-another-late-lead-third-collapse-in-nine-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Heat blow another late lead, third collapse in nine days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1020\" data-end=\"1222\">The <strong data-start=\"1024\" data-end=\"1038\">Miami Heat<\/strong> squandered a double-digit fourth-quarter lead for the <strong data-start=\"1093\" data-end=\"1120\">third time in nine days<\/strong>, falling <strong data-start=\"1130\" data-end=\"1141\">105-102<\/strong> to <strong data-start=\"1145\" data-end=\"1158\">Charlotte<\/strong>. <strong data-start=\"1160\" data-end=\"1180\">Erik Spoelstra&#8217;s<\/strong> squad now faces a tough playoff battle.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1224\" data-end=\"1717\">Leading by <strong data-start=\"1235\" data-end=\"1248\">11 points<\/strong> late against the <strong data-start=\"1266\" data-end=\"1277\">Hornets<\/strong>, the <strong data-start=\"1283\" data-end=\"1291\">Heat<\/strong> suffered yet another collapse, mirroring losses to <strong data-start=\"1343\" data-end=\"1354\">Chicago<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1359\" data-end=\"1371\">New York<\/strong>. With a <strong data-start=\"1380\" data-end=\"1418\">9-18 record in their last 27 games<\/strong>, Miami has struggled to close games and now sits <strong data-start=\"1468\" data-end=\"1489\">ninth in the East<\/strong>, likely headed for the play-in tournament. \u201cWe just have to stay together and push through this tough time,\u201d said <strong data-start=\"1604\" data-end=\"1619\">Tyler Herro<\/strong>. But with <strong data-start=\"1630\" data-end=\"1643\">Cleveland<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1648\" data-end=\"1658\">Boston<\/strong> looming, their postseason hopes are in serious jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1746\" data-end=\"1776\"><em data-start=\"1746\" data-end=\"1755\">Source:<\/em> <em data-start=\"1756\" data-end=\"1774\">Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Heat squandered a double-digit fourth-quarter lead for the third time in nine days, falling 105-102 to Charlotte<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-432349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Miami-Heay.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432349"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=432349"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=432349"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=432349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}