There was some positivity around the possibility of the Miami Heat getting star scorer Tyler Herro back in the fold sooner rather than later when, at the outset of the team’s modest three-game trip through Brooklyn, Boston and New York, the team decided to take Herro with them despite the toe injury that has been keeping him sidelined.
Herro has averaged 23.2 points on 50.5% shooting and 40.5% 3-point shooting this season, making him among the most efficient perimeter scorers in the league. He has also been very unavailable, even by his standards in that regard. Herro has played just six games this year, at first missing time as he recovered from offseason ankle surgery, which was understandable.
But more recently, he has been out with a toe contusion. Yes, Herro has missed six of his last seven games with a bruise on his big toe. When the Heat announced that the had decided Herro would not play on Sunday against the Knicks, it means he missed all of the three-game road trip and raises the question of why he was on the trip at all.
Tyler Herro Has Been Slow to Recover From Toe Injury
Herro has played once for the Miami Heat in the last 16 days, against the Magic in the team’s NBA Cup loss. He said he took a numbing shot on the day before that game, and wound up scoring 20 points on 7-for-17 shooting, missing all six of his 3-pointers.
Herro said he might have come back too quickly from the injury, playing against the Magic following three practice days.
“It hasn’t really gotten better,” he said last week. “So I tried to warm up and I just wasn’t feeling right that night. … I probably shouldn’t have practiced. That kind of like sparked things back up. So I’m just trying to control the swelling and the inflammation and then from there I can kind of decide what I want to do from there.”
GettyAfter a scary fall in a recent game, Miami Heat forward Nikola Jovic said he thought his injury was much worse than the latest update shows.
Miami Heat Dealing With Multiple Injuries
So the Miami Heat are without Herro, without Pelle Larson and again are without Nikola Jovic, who suffered that horrendous elbow injury in a fall against the Raptors on Monday. There was considerable concern that Jovic had done serious damage to the elbow in that fall, but an MRI revealed it was also a contusion. He could be back next week.
Jovic addressed the elbow last week.
“I mean, I was scared I broke my arm, because I didn’t feel anything and I just saw a lot of blood,” Jovic said, via the Sun Sentinel. “And they were really scared, too, because I had a pretty deep and a big cut, too, you know. I have stitches now. But it didn’t look good as soon as I went back, because I started feeling my arm.
“It feels good now. I can’t do a lot of stuff. I can’t really hold stuff right now. But it’s not broken, so I guess that’s the most important thing and I think I’ll be back really soon.”
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