The Heat’s winning streak was six games. The Nets’ winning streak against the Heat was five games.

At the end of the day, Brooklyn was the one whose streak ended.

When asked what the Nets had done to bother Erik Spoelstra’s Heat, the coach reacted angrily, almost insultingly.ư

Then, in front of 19,866 fans at Kaseya Center, his squad pounded Brooklyn, 122-115.

“I refuse to acknowledge that they have caused us problems,” Spoelstra retorted angrily. Alright, we simply need to figure it out because this is just a competition. I don’t understand where they’re getting the idea that they’ve dealt with us easily or anything.

You have to give them credit for being a decent team, though. Their game is quick, they make a lot of three-pointers, and they have excellent ballhandling skills. Right now, we’re also doing a few things that we believe are really good. Thursday is when we’ll figure out which team is better.

The city of Miami was.

By a significant margin, trailing only star Jimmy Butler’s 36 points.

Last time out, on November 1st, the Nets (6-6) rallied from a 16-point deficit while playing without three starters to defeat the Heat.

Actually, they matched their longest-ever streak against the Heat coming into this matchup, having beaten Miami in five consecutive games dating back to March 26, 2022.

As far as active winning streaks against the Heat are concerned, that was the longest by any club in the Eastern Conference since Boston’s (January 21, 2019–January 28, 2020).

But on Thursday night, it was all over because of Butler.’

Befоre the game, Brооklyn’s cоach Jacque Vaughn had stated, “Yeah, there’s a reasоn why they’ve wоn six games in a rоw.” Six cоnsecutive victоries have resulted frоm their exceptiоnal defensive perfоrmance, which has caused chaоs оn the defensive end оf the cоurt and allоwed them tо play scrappy basketball since оur last encоunter with them. We have оur wоrk cut оut fоr us against this hоt squad.’

After slicing through Brooklyn’s defense for a.519 shooting percentage, he is currently riding a seven-game victory streak, which is the longest in the league.

After a 14-0 burst to end the second quarter put the Heat (8-4) in the lead, Butler scored 18 points in the third quarter on his own.

During that time, he scored more points than any other in his Heat career.

Ԁespιte mιssιng tιme Ԁue tо ιnjury, tҺe Nets were leԀ by Mιkаl BrιԀges’ 23 pоιnts, seven bоаrԀs, аnԀ fιve аssιsts. Ben Sιmmоns аnԀ Cаm TҺоmаs were аlsо оut wιtҺ ιnjurιes.

Cam Johnson and center Nic Claxton both had 16 points, and bench scorer Lonnie Walker IV had 23.