MIAMI — Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry will not play Wednesday night against the Miami Heat as he continues to deal with a right ankle injury he has tweaked in two of his last three games. Jimmy Butler (lower back strain), Draymond Green (illness), Al Horford (second night of a back-to-back), Jonathan Kuminga (knee tendinitis) will also be out against the Heat.

Warriors coach Steve Kerr said before the game that Curry, Green and Butler are all considered “day to day.” Specific to Curry, Kerr said he is hopeful that the ankle injury will not be a lingering problem.

“We’ll see how he goes,” Kerr said. “Once we’re back from the trip (we’ll see) how he’s feeling, and the hope would be he would play Friday but we don’t know yet.”

This is the Warriors’ only visit to Miami this year. Butler played more than five years for the Heat before asking to be traded last year. Miami traded him to Golden State before the trade deadline.

The Warriors’ long injury list comes on the second night of a back-to-back, a night after Kerr reiterated his long-standing belief that the NBA should do away with back-to-backs in the schedule. Wednesday’s contest marks the Warriors’ 17th game in 30 days in 12 different cities to start the season. It is the fifth set of back-to-backs that the Warriors have been in already this year.

Kerr said he didn’t intend for his comments to “blow up” the way they did, but he believes that the league would be better off with a shorter schedule. His initial comments on Tuesday came when he was asked about the rise in soft tissue injuries across the league.

“I think it’s a legitimate question that we should all be addressing,” Kerr said about the schedule Wednesday. “We all have a stake in this league, we all want the same thing. We want the best possible product, we want to protect our players. So I think everything should be on the table in these conversations.”

Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, who served as an assistant on Kerr’s staff with Team USA’s men’s team over the last two summers, said he understands where Kerr is coming from, but doesn’t believe that cutting down the schedule is realistic.

“It can’t be done the way it’s structured right now,” Spoelstra said before Wednesday’s game. “Steve and I and the (Team USA) staff the last two summers, we had talked about it, but it’s not changing. The only way it could have changed possibly is with the new TV deal, that everybody could agree on 10 less games, or something like that. But since that didn’t happen, I also agree with what Steve said. People aren’t going to give money back to have less games. So there really isn’t a solution to get rid of the back-to-backs at this time.”

Kerr also reiterated that he believes in the leadership of NBA commissioner Adam Silver and noted former Suns executive James Jones working with the league as another positive.

“Usually when I bring stuff like this up, it’s to stir the pot,” Kerr said. “And make sure we’re paying attention, and we’re thinking about this stuff. But there’s no easy answer. I can’t sit here and claim to have one, but I do know that it has to be addressed. I don’t know — do we lengthen the calendar by a week in the season to buy a few more off days? That would be an idea. But I think everybody needs to address it because it’s clearly an issue and we can’t just bury our head in the sand.”