Miami @ San Antonio preview

Last Meeting ( Jan 15, 2020 ) San Antonio 100, Miami 106

The Miami Heat haven't swept a road trip longer than one game this season but have a chance to do just that when they visit the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday. The road-challenged Heat earned a 115-108 victory at Oklahoma City on Friday to improve to 11-11 away from home.

Miami owns the best home record in the NBA at 18-1 and leaned on its offensive balance to improve to .500 on the road Friday, with seven players scoring in double figures. "I think everybody knows that we're for real on the offensive end," star swingman Jimmy Butler told reporters. "Everybody in this locker room, everybody outside the locker room. Everybody is comfortable, man. Everybody is whipping the ball around. We're sharing the basketball. It's so fun to play like that. But we're a talented group. We've got some young guys, older guys that love playing with one another." Miami knocked off the Spurs 106-100 at home on Wednesday and San Antonio wasn't any better at home on Friday, squandering a 14-point lead in the fourth quarter and dropping a 121-120 decision to the Eastern Conference-worst Atlanta Hawks. "We were not solid down the stretch, and I think that's what's bitten us in the (rear) the whole year, where all of a sudden the game plan goes to hell," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich told reporters. "People should have left and asked for their money back after the first half."

TIME: 3 p.m. ET. TV: FS Sun, FS Southwest, NBA TV Canada

ABOUT THE HEAT (29-12): Miami pulled out all the stops to earn a win on the road Friday, going to a zone defense at times to hold the Thunder to one shot. "It's the efforts," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra told reporters. "Really, the scheme is not going to win you a possession or even a game. You have to burn some calories and make some things happen. If you want to win in a tough place, you're going to have to make tough plays, you're going to have to get stops. Regardless of what scheme it was, you still had so many possessions where you had to guard the ball." Miami got another strong effort on Friday from rookie guard Kendrick Nunn, who scored a team-high 22 points on 9-of-17 shooting to reach 20 or more for the third consecutive game.

ABOUT THE SPURS (17-23): Atlanta had dropped 21 straight games at San Antonio before edging the Spurs on Friday, and the team is trying to avoid more performances that allow opponents to make history. "We've just got to be more solid," Popovich told reporters. "Too many mistakes down the stretch, and that's what always seems to happen when we lose a basketball game." Guard DeMar DeRozan continued his solid run of late with 25 points on 9-of-18 shooting - his 13th consecutive game shooting 50 percent or better from the floor.

BUZZER BEATERS

1. Heat rookie SG Tyler Herro (knee) sat out the last two games and is day-to-day.

2. Spurs F Rudy Gay (illness, undisclosed injury) sat out Friday and is questionable for Sunday.

3. Miami took the last three in the series, including a 110-105 victory at San Antonio last season.

PREDICTION: Spurs 115, Heat 112