Each week during the 2022-23 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether the trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward.
The shorthanded Miami Heat, six months removed from coming within an errant 3-pointer of beating the Boston Celtics en route to the NBA Finals for a second time in three years, allowed 134 points to their Eastern Conference rivals in a loss that temporarily dropped them out of the play-in tournament picture.
Wednesday's victory also improved the Celtics' record to a league-best 18-4.