Toronto Raptors – Miami Heat / NBA – The hosts from Toronto will receive home in a very good form Miami Heat at home, who have conquered Utah Jazz in a very exciting game finish prior to this guest appearance, which is certainly positive for the team from Florida before the match in Canada. Toronto occupy second place in the Eastern Conference, while Miami is fifth.

Toronto Raptors
Toronto occupy the second place in the Eastern Conference, with 27 wins and 10 defeats before the double against Nets and Miami. They are by far the best home team in the East because they have celebrated 14 times in 15 duels in front of their own fans even 14 times and together with the Spurs (18-2) they are considered the most unpleasant host in the entire league. Now they have two matches in series, first away against the Nets and then home against Miami. Toronto is the third most offensive team in the league. The defense is also not bad and in this area they are in tenth place in the league.
DeRozen leads his team again this season and currently scores 25 points and 5 assists on average. Lowry is not playing well as he used to, especially when it comes to throwing, but his contribution in the current season is still satisfactory (about 16 points, 7 assists and 6 rebounds). These two players are actually the key players in the Canadian team, but they could use another stable player very well, especially for the playoffs. Ibaka and Valanciunas are good players and well under the basket, but together they score less than 14 rebounds on average per match.

Miami Heat
The guests from Miami are one of the teams that surprised the most. Although they have no big stars in their team, they managed to reach fifth place in the Eastern Conference, with 22 wins and 17 defeats in the account. They have a positive result (14-9) against the teams from the Eastern Conference, while they recorded 11 wins and 8 defeats away, which is better than on home soil (11-9). As we said before, they were celebrating 103: 102 against this duel against Utah and that was their fourth win in a row. They confirmed that they are currently in a good mood.
However, they scored three out of four wins in front of their own fans, but the opponents were very uncomfortable (Utah, the Knicks and the Pistons). So, as I said, the Heat this season have no All-Star players in their team, but they have good team play, especially in defense, which makes them the seventh most defensive team in the league. Statistically, the team of Dragic is led with 16.7 points. Apart from him even seven other players achieve double-digit score. For Miami it is important that the recovered Center Whiteside has returned to the team (14 points and 11.5 rebounds). Due to injury, the second-best shooter of the team, Waiters, falls out.