Heat Announce 2024-25 Regular Season Schedule
Miami HEAT announced its 2024-25 regular season schedule. The schedule runs from October 23, 2024 through April 13, 2025 and currently includes 80 games with two HEAT In-Season Tournament games to be determined at a later date. Miami enters the 2024-25 campaign looking to make its sixth consecutive postseason appearance, tying the franchise record set from 1995-2001 and matched from 2008-14. The HEAT will appear on national television 13 times, including five on ESPN, two on TNT and six on NBA TV. All local broadcast information for the season will be released at a later date.
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The HEAT will tipoff its 37th regular season with three of their first four games in Miami, opening the regular season at home against the Orlando Magic on October 23 (7:30 PM). The HEAT will then travel to Charlotte for an October 26 matchup against the Hornets (7 PM) before returning home for games against the Detroit Pistons (Oct. 28, 7:30 PM) and the New York Knicks (Oct. 30, 7:30 PM).
The schedule also features a nationally televised (NBA TV) visit to Mexico City against the Washington Wizards on November 2 (7:30 PM), marking Miami’s third regular season game in the capital of Mexico. The HEAT won their previous two games in Mexico City, defeating Brooklyn in 2017 and San Antonio in 2022. Among the highlights of Miami’s 2024-25 schedule are a New Year’s Day home tilt against the New Orleans Pelicans (7:30 PM) and home games against the L.A. Lakers (Dec. 4), Boston Celtics (Feb. 10 and Mar. 14) and Golden State Warriors (Mar. 25).
The HEAT will play four HEAT In-Season Tournament games as part of East Group B from November 12-29. Miami’s In-Season Tournament Group Play games are scheduled on the road at Detroit (Nov. 12, 7 PM) and Indiana (Nov. 15, 7 PM) and at home against Milwaukee in a nationally televised game (Nov. 26, 7:30 PM) and Toronto (Nov. 29, 8 PM). Eight teams (four per conference) will advance from Group Play into the second and final stage of the Emirates NBA Cup 2024, the Knockout Rounds: the six group winners and two “wild cards.”
The HEAT will play 36 of the 80 currently scheduled games on weekends (Friday through Sunday). Of those weekend games, 17 will be played in Miami (seven on Friday, four on Saturday and six on Sunday). Among those 17 weekend home games will be a pair of afternoon games against San Antonio (Jan. 19, 3 PM) and the regular season finale against Washington (Apr. 13, 1 PM). The HEAT’s longest homestands this season will be a pair of five-game stretches from March 7-14 and March 19-27. Miami’s longest road trips will be a pair of six-game trips (Nov. 6-17 and Jan. 6-15). March is once again the month the HEAT will play the most times, tipping off 17 times. Additionally, Miami will play 15 back-to-backs and face the same opponent in consecutive games on three occasions, the Pacers (Nov. 15 and 17), the Raptors (Nov. 29 and Dec. 1) and the Hawks on (Feb. 24 and 26).
Game tickets for all regular season home games at Kaseya Center will go on sale to the general public on Friday, August 16th at 12 PM. Tickets can be purchased by logging on to HEAT.com or Ticketmaster.com. All Miami HEAT home games are mobile only entry. HEAT fans may access their game tickets via the Miami HEAT App, Ticketmaster.com and/or the Ticketmaster App in order to gain entry to Kaseya Center. Tickets for Miami’s three home preseason games (Oct. 10 vs. Atlanta, Oct. 13 vs. New Orleans and Oct. 15 vs. San Antonio) are already on sale.