Whiteside grabs season-high 25 rebounds in another Heat loss

A familiar script played out Tuesday in Miami - Hassan Whiteside dominated the boards, and the Heat still lost.

Whiteside grabbed a season-high 25 rebounds - including 10 offensive boards - to go along with his 19 points, two assists, two steals, and a block, as the Heat fell to the Atlanta Hawks for their league-worst sixth straight loss.

No one else has grabbed more than eight offensive rebounds or 23 total rebounds in a game this season.

It was also only the third 25-plus-rebound performance in Heat history, and Whiteside already had one of the other two. Rony Seikaly's 34-rebound outing in 1993 remains the franchise record.

Since Whiteside rejoined the Association in 2014, the only other players to post multiple 25-rebound games are Andre Drummond, DeAndre Jordan, and Tyson Chandler.

With Tuesday's monster performance taken into account, Whiteside is now the NBA's leading rebounder in both per game (15.9) and advanced (26 REB%) metrics.

In the 47-year rebound rate archive on Basketball Reference, only Dennis Rodman and Reggie Evans have finished a season with a rate of at least 26 percent.

Whiteside's historic success on the glass hasn't been enough for the overmatched Heat, however, who are 2-8 on the season and 23rd in rebounding (48.6 percent), due largely in part to their abysmal rebound rate of 44 percent when Whiteside is off the court.