No one breaks down a schedule better than Rob Wilson, the Miami Heat’s director of sports media relations.

So we won’t even try.

Instead, with Tuesday’s release, we augment what already is available elsewhere at Sun Sentinel.com with the nuances that only Wilson would insist also be made available for public consumption.

* This will mark the seventh time in franchise history (fifth time in the last eight seasons) that the Heat will open the season on the road. It is also the third time in franchise history the Heat open a season with at least two consecutive road games (the other seasons were 1994-95 and 2003-04). It will mark the first time the Heat have opened the season against the Celtics.
* The Heat will play on Christmas Day again this season. This will be the seventh time overall that the Heat have played on Christmas Day and the sixth time in the last seven seasons (2008 was the exception). It will mark the fifth time the Heat have played on the road on Christmas Day and the third straight Christmas Day game the Heat have been on the road. It will match the Heat and Lakers for the fourth time on Christmas Day.
* The Heat will also play on New Year’s Day for just the fourth time in franchise history (the others were 2006 vs. Minnesota, 2005 vs. Charlotte, and 2003 at Atlanta).
* The Heat will play 10 home games each in the months of November and March for the second straight season. That marks just the seventh and eighth times in franchise history the Heat have had double-digit home games in a month. The previous six times were five times in the month of March (2010, 2007, 2004, 2003, 1998) and once in November (2009).
* The Heat will play 10 road games in the month of December, one shy of the franchise record for a month.
* The 19 sets of back-to-back games this season are one more than last season.
* The Heat do not have any back-to-back home games on consecutive nights.
* The 19 weekend home games (Friday, Saturday or Sunday) are tied for the highest total (also had 19 in 2007-08 and 2009-10) since the Heat played 21 weekend home games during the 2003-04 season.
* The Heat’s last road game against a Western Conference opponent is April 1 at Minnesota, in its 76th game. Over the final 41 games of the season, the Heat play just three road games against Western Conference opponents (Jan. 30 at Oklahoma City, March 4 at San Antonio and April 1 at Minnesota).
* Only once this season will the Heat play the same opponent in consecutive games. The Heat and Milwaukee Bucks have a home-and-home set of games Jan. 4 at Miami and Jan. 7 at Milwaukee. This marks the second straight season the Heat have played consecutive games against the Bucks.
* The Heat have 14 single-game road trips (twice last season’s total) and nine multi-game road trips (five of which are two games, three are four games and one is five games).
* This season’s schedule includes eight day (before 6 p.m.) games (four at home and four on the road), six in the second half of the season, when ABC starts its Sunday afternoon coverage.
* The Oct. 26 game at Boston is the Heat’s earliest opener ever. Prior to this season, the earliest the Heat opened a season was on Oct. 28 in both the 2003-04 (at Philadelphia) and 2009-10 (vs. New York) seasons. The Heat’s four games in October are the most in franchise history, the previous high was three in 2003.
* The Heat have the maximum five games on ABC and the maximum 10 each on ESPN and TNT. The Heat are also scheduled for four games on NBA TV and 11 games on ESPN Radio.
* The Heat have four consecutive games from Feb. 27-March 6 and eight of 11 from Feb. 24-March 16 broadcast on national TV (ESPN, TNT, ABC). Counting NBA TV games, the Heat also have a stretch of five consecutive national TV games from Dec. 17-25.
* The Heat’s most frequent playing day is Friday, with 16 games (seven home, nine away)