Miami Heat playoff rematches among notable games as schedule revealed

The Miami Heat aren’t necessarily in the hype train phase of things yet with their team and roster construction, especially considering all of the lingering NBA trade stuff going on around them but the NBA is firmly in that position.

In an effort to build the buzz for the coming season, as always, some of the key or notable games from the season’s schedule are starting to be released. This comes ahead of the full release of the schedule on Wednesday.

Though that won’t happen until then, of course, the NBA news makers and breakers have some of the schedule’s key games early on. Insight on a few of the Miami Heat’s come from one of the league’s premier scoop-meisters, Shams Charania.

Facing off against the Boston Celtics early in the year, it should give Jimmy Butler and his Miami heat a chance to take out some harbored feelings on the team that sent them home in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals.

The Miami Heat have a chance to get a little revenge early on against Boston, while they’ll look to punish Atlanta again on the MLK Day prime-time stage.

Though both teams will look a little different than those games in that matchup, the key difference for the Miami Heat should be health.

Even though the Boston Celtics were banged up too and even though losing P.J. Tucker might be crucial for the Miami Heat, not having Tyler Herro and Kyle Lowry at full strength is more of a blow than either of those two circumstances can account for in totality.

The next game of note here is another playoff rematch. Off of their, 4-1, first-round defeat over the Atlanta Hawks, a historically bad playoff performance for Trae Young in his young NBA career, they will face a new-look Hawks team.

Bringing in Dejounte Murray and shipping out some guys, such as Kevin Huerter, the Hawks should be an interesting little watch and team this season, especially by that time of the year. They could either be very good, electric, and exciting with Young and Murray or—it could be a pyrotechnics show in the worst way for the franchise.

It’ll be tremendous entertainment to watch either way though and that’s what makes it and them interesting. The Miami Heat should really get to test their “big game defense” in a prime-time matchup against a team that, at the very least, should be able to push the tempo on offense.

Now, something else of note and you assume that it won’t change soon with how little noise you’ve heard recently on the topic, John Collins is still there after so much had been reported as the offseason started but that’s just a story to keep an eye on there.

All of the news about the coming season can only mean one thing though and that’s that it isn’t that far away at all. Indeed, the NBA and Miami Heat basketball is just around the corner!