{"id":265976,"date":"2025-11-06T06:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/265976\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T06:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:53:08","slug":"heats-adebayo-hobbled-by-foot-pain-exits-early-vs-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/265976\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat’s Adebayo hobbled by foot pain, exits early vs. Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"

DENVER — Miami’s Bam Adebayo<\/a> checked himself out of Wednesday night’s game against the Denver Nuggets<\/a> late in the first quarter after experiencing pain in his left foot.<\/p>\n

He didn’t return.<\/p>\n

The presence of the Heat’s forward\/center was missed in the middle as the Nikola Jokic<\/a>-led Nuggets dominated the boards in a 122-112 win.<\/p>\n

Adebayo is slated to undergo tests on his foot Thursday. He was hobbling around after the game.<\/p>\n

“We’ll figure it out,” Adebayo said.<\/p>\n

With Adebayo sidelined, the Nuggets took full advantage.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Picks<\/a><\/p>\n

More specifically, Jokic, who had 33 points, 16 assists and 15 rebounds for his fifth triple-double of the season. The Heat were outrebounded by a 61-38 margin, including 21-5 on the offensive glass. The 61 rebounds were Denver’s most since May 5, 2021.<\/p>\n

“Definitely tough,” Heat guard Norman Powell<\/a> said of losing Adebayo early. “I thought we had a good rhythm to start the game, good flow, good energy, good pop to us. Getting stops, rebounds. He was battling. I didn’t see what happened, but it was just tough.”<\/p>\n

Adebayo’s a three-time All-Star and has made five all-defensive teams. He entered the night averaging 22.4 points and 9.1 rebounds.<\/p>\n

“I have huge respect for him,” said Jokic, who was 12-of-18 from the floor. “Every possession he’s playing 100% — sometimes even more than that. They definitely needed him on both sides of the floor.”<\/p>\n

The Heat were up three — with another free throw on the way — when Adebayo left the game at the 3:48 mark of the first quarter. The Nuggets would begin to methodically pull away and stretch the lead to 17 in the fourth quarter. Miami made a late run before Jamal Murray<\/a> sealed the win at the free-throw line.<\/p>\n

“There are so many moments during the course of the game, those swing opportunities, that we didn’t manage well,” said Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, whose team finished 1-3 on a four-game trip. “Every time we got it to around six or eight, they would respond and it would end up being a 15-point lead. But that’s part of us learning. Even without Bam, I thought this was a game we could’ve put ourselves in a position to win.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER — Miami’s Bam Adebayo checked himself out of Wednesday night’s game against the Denver Nuggets late in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-265976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}