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The\u00a0Miami Heat will have just seven nationally televised games \u2014 on the ABC, ESPN or TNT networks \u2014 in the 2024-25 regular season after the team received 16 of said games last season.<\/p>\n

Second-year player Jaime Jaquez Jr. suggested that the amount of nationally televised games the NBA handed the Heat implies that the league isn\u2019t very high on the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter what it is, we\u2019re going to find a way to make us have a chip on our shoulder,\u201d he\u00a0said. \u201cI think even going in, I think it\u2019s seven national TV games for the\u00a0Miami Heat. That\u2019s what the NBA thinks of us. And that\u2019s OK, because I guarantee you that they\u2019re going to still be talking about us when the season goes on and we play our season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the media is still going to find a way to talk about us and what we\u2019re doing and we\u2019re going to definitely make some noise. They\u2019re going to have no choice but to mention our names.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Duncan Robinson also implied that the Heat are accustomed to overachieving when the squad is dealing with low expectations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it matters and I think people take note of it,\u201d Robinson said. \u201cI mean it\u2019s definitely been sort of a theme and narrative around the facility, that nobody thinks we\u2019re going to do anything.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think as long as I\u2019ve been here, I feel like that\u2019s really a place of comfort for us, not in the sense that we\u2019re comfortable being there, but in the sense that we\u2019ve been there plenty of times and we kind of know how to move forward from it. And we know what button to push and how to maximize opportunities when we\u2019re in these sort of places.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While Robinson and Jaquez seem to be embracing the fact that the Heat will play in drastically fewer nationally televised games compared to the season prior, the decision to diminish Miami\u2019s time in the spotlight isn\u2019t exactly unfounded when considering the lack of success that the team enjoyed in the 2023-24 campaign.<\/p>\n

First, the Heat had a rollercoaster of a regular season, as Miami finished with a 46-36 record and had to play its way through the play-in tournament in order to secure a spot in the 2024 NBA Playoffs.<\/p>\n

The Heat then didn\u2019t capitalize on their playoff berth. The team lost in five games in the first round of the 2024 NBA Playoffs, and Miami was dealing with a bad case of the injury bug. Jimmy Butler, Terry Rozier and Josh Richardson all sat out for the entirety of the Heat\u2019s best-of-seven series against Jayson Tatum and the\u00a0Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n

But perhaps Miami can take that next step as a team in the upcoming 2024-25 campaign if Jaquez is able to build upon what was an impressive inaugural season in the NBA. He averaged 11.9 points, 3.8 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.0 steal per game across 75 appearances (20 starts) with the Heat as a rookie.<\/p>\n

Jaquez was in contention for one of the NBA\u2019s major awards last season, considering he finished fourth in the league\u2019s Rookie of the Year voting. Only Victor Wembanyama, Chet Holmgren and Brandon Miller received more votes for the hardware.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s to hoping that not only Jaquez and Robinson \u2014 but the entire Heat team \u2014 will use the lack of nationally televised games on its 82-game schedule as motivation to prove the doubters wrong.<\/p>\n

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