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Podcast: Miami Heat’s starting lineup issues, plus the debut of the listener mailbag

It has now been exactly a month since the final win of the Miami Heat’s longest winning streak of the season. Last month, the Heat rattled off a five-game winning streak — its only winning streak stretching longer than two games all season — to climb to .500 for only the second time all season. It capped a 9-3 stretch for Miami, which seemingly found a winning formula with a starting lineup of combo guard Josh Richardson, swingman Rodney McGruder, point forward Justise Winslow, forward James Johnson and center Hassan Whiteside.

The Heat has essentially rolled with the same starting five ever since, only making changes when a player has missed a game here or there for illness, personal reasons or minor injury.