Heading into this season, every team knew that it was going to be a grind.
From health and safety protocols and an abridged offseason to a condensed 72-game schedule, this has been a campaign unlike any other.
And the HEAT have experienced that first hand, most recently with a hellacious stretch this month.
From April 13 – 24, the team played eight games in 12 days, going 4-4 during that span. They then followed that up with a tough loss to the Bulls on Monday even with a 33-point performance from Jimmy Butler.
Despite the disappointing result, Miami is still just two games back of the fourth-seeded Knicks and fifth-seeded Hawks and a half-game behind sixth-seeded Boston with 10 games left, including two big ones against the Celtics.