The Miami Heat has been the hottest team in the NBA for over a month now, but that hasn’t made them a primetime national story.
Friday, the league announced it was taking the Heat yet again off one its few nationally televised appearances this season, switching its ESPN televised game at Orlando next Friday for Cleveland-Atlanta, two teams with winning records. Previously, the league switched Monday’s Heat-Mavericks game on TNT for Pacers-Rockets.
Both Heat games will remain available on the local team broadcasts of Fox Sports Sun as well as NBA League Pass. But Heat point guard Goran Dragic had no idea the NBA switched nationally televised games until reporters told him Friday before Miami pounded the Hawks 108-90, winning for the 15th time in 17 games.