Five takeaways from the Miami Heat’s impressive 124-103 victory over the Boston Celtics (56-20) on Wednesday night at TD Garden to win its sixth straight game and close its three-game trip at a perfect 3-0. The Heat (35-41) now returns to Miami to begin a three-game homestand on Thursday against the Memphis Grizzlies (7:30 p.m., TNT):
After enduring one of its worst stretches in more than a decade, the Heat continued its best stretch of this season with a quality road win over the Celtics.
The Heat has now immediately followed its 10-game losing skid (its longest since 2008) with a season-long six-game winning streak. All six victories have come by double-digits.
The Heat is just the third team in NBA history to immediately follow a losing streak of at least 10 games with a winning streak of at least six games. The other two teams that did it are the 2021-22 Houston Rockets (didn’t make the playoffs and finished with a 20-62 record) and the 2017-18 Chicago Bulls (didn’t make the playoffs and finished with a 27-55 record).
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