{"id":349951,"date":"2025-12-17T00:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/349951\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T00:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:03:08","slug":"heats-nikola-jovic-day-to-day-after-mri-reveals-elbow-contusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/349951\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat’s Nikola Jovic day-to-day after MRI reveals elbow contusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dec 16, 2025, 06:50 PM ET<\/p>\n

Miami Heat<\/a> forward Nikola Jovic<\/a> received good news on his right elbow injury Tuesday, when an MRI revealed only a contusion\/laceration, the team announced.<\/p>\n

The Heat said Jovic is day-to-day.<\/p>\n

Heat guard Tyler Herro<\/a>, who missed his third straight game Monday with a lingering right big toe injury, also underwent an MRI and remains day-to-day with a contusion.<\/p>\n

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Jovic walked off the court with a splint-like device over his right arm after he took a hard foul while driving to the basket late in the first quarter of a 106-96 loss to the Toronto Raptors<\/a> on Monday night. He fell hard to the floor, and after being tended to by the Heat training staff, he exited for the locker room for additional evaluation.<\/p>\n

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said afterward that Jovic’s elbow was bleeding and that he “lost all feeling in his hand because it was a massive stinger.”<\/p>\n

The injury occurred just 12 seconds after Jovic entered Monday’s game. He is averaging 7.2 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game this season.<\/p>\n

The Heat begin a three-game road trip Thursday against the Brooklyn Nets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 16, 2025, 06:50 PM ET Miami Heat forward Nikola Jovic received good news on his right elbow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-349951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}