Miami @ Portland preview

Last Meeting ( Jan 5, 2020 ) Portland 111, Miami 122

The Miami Heat made one of the bigger moves of the trade deadline frenzy by bringing in veteran forward Andre Iguodala from the Memphis Grizzlies and are hoping to have him available for the first time when they visit the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday. Iguodala has yet to play this season and will go through practice on Saturday and shootaround Sunday before the team makes a determination about his status.

Iguodala, who won three NBA Championships with the Golden State Warriors before being traded to Memphis in the offseason and sitting out the first four-plus months of the season waiting to be traded again, is excited to join a team that plans to contend in the East. "It's kind of a blessing in disguise, like this is the perfect spot," Iguodala told ESPN. "I can do a lot of different things here. A lot of different things. It doesn't have to be just defense or just passing. Or just in the corners. It's going to be good. It's going to be good. I'm going to do a lot of different things." If Iguodala plays on Sunday he could find himself matched up against Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard, who scored 42 points against the Utah Jazz on Friday but came away from the game in a rage after a non-call on a clear goaltending in the closing seconds of a 117-114 setback. "I'm telling (the referees) they're grabbing and bumping the whole game, that's fine," Lillard told reporters. "We get to the last play of the game and they miss an easy call. And then they tell us 'It's an easy no-call, that was obviously not a goaltend.' It cost us a (expletive) game. Cost us a game."

TIME: 9 p.m. ET. TV: FS Sun, NBCS Northwest, NBA TV Canada

ABOUT THE HEAT (34-17): Friday's 105-97 setback at Sacramento dropped Miami to 12-14 on the road and 0-2 on the six-game trip as the team struggled with All-Star swingman Jimmy Butler (shoulder) out. "I think overall we just didn't play a smart game," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra told reporters. "We had a lot of mental errors, mental breakdowns. The majority of them in the first half, we were just slow with our next-play speed and missing coverages, basic coverages. It doesn't guarantee anything, whether we were in the zone or the man, it doesn't matter." Miami allowed the Kings to make 19 3-pointers after letting the Clippers knock down 24 in a 128-11 setback to begin the trip.

ABOUT THE TRAIL BLAZERS (24-29): Lillard was not alone in his dissatisfaction following Friday's setback, after which the referees released a statement admitting to the missed call. "It's just a shame it was decided on an inexcusable missed call," Portland coach Terry Stotts told reporters. "There's no other way to describe it. They could've called goaltending and reviewed it, but they swallowed their whistles on a play that was so pretty obvious. ... It's disappointing that such a great effort was decided by that." Lillard went 8-of-14 from 3-point range in the loss - the seventh time in the last nine games that he knocked down at least six 3-pointers and the sixth time in that span that he scored 40-plus points.

BUZZER BEATERS

1. Butler and SG Tyler Herro (foot), who sat out the last two games, are questionable along with Fs Solomon Hill and Jae Crowder, who arrived from Memphis in the Iguodala deal.

2. Trail Blazers C Hassan Whiteside (leg) sat out Friday and is day-to-day.

3. Miami is riding a three-game winning streak in the series, including a 122-111 home win over Portland on Jan. 5.

PREDICTION: Trail Blazers 126, Heat 115