The Nets are 2-0 from the Heat this year, but both those wins came at home. Brooklyn has a poor record against Heat in Miami, having failed to add a 'W' in more than six years.
However, holding the very best record (22-9) since the turn of the season in the Eastern Conference, this might be as good a chance just like any to topple the Heat, who snapped a three-game losing streak with a hard-fought 99-90 victory over the Washington Wizards, a victory which earned Miami a playoff spot.
"We needed this win," Dwyane Wade said. "We weren't down on ourselves, but we really don't like losing two games in a row and we lost three. Which means this was a good way to pick it support, and now we have a great week in your own home."
The home swing continues from the Nets - a team on a hot streak having won six of their last seven games. "(The Nets) are playing some great basketball right now," Lebron said. 'We look forward to playing a group that's been playing good."
Wade had 13 points in the fourth quarter to key the Heat past the Wizards on Monday, and also the guard looked as good as ever playing in a rare back-to-back game, after enduring nearly 40 minutes in the overtime loss towards the Chicago Bulls on Sunday.
"People made sweeping assumptions that he won't play any [games] back-to-back, but that's never been the case," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "When we are saying everything is day-to-day, that's what we mean. If he can pass a series of exercises and tests from the routine, if his legs feel good, why hold back?
"He's ready to go and he can play. We anticipated early in the year that as the season continued, he would feel better."