The Miami Heat may have lost this Monday night game at the Boston Celtics when they went three overtimes deep Saturday night 124-120 loss to the Toronto Raptors in the middle of a four-games-in-five-nights set.
Earlier today, the Heat announced that Jimmy Butler and P.J. Tucker, who both played big minutes in the triple-overtime game, would sit out. Add in Kyle Lowry remaining out for personal reasons, Omer Yurtseven in health-and-safety protocols and KZ Okpala and Markieff Morris still out, and the Heat only had 10 players available.
Monday night’s game in Boston started flat, as the Celtics quickly jumped out to an early lead against a Heat team that struggled to muster any semblance of an offense.