Friday night\u2019s loss in Boston<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u2013 \u201cI\u2019m not even thinking about that, what they could have meant for that game,\u201d Spoelstra said of the duo and the loss to the Celtics. \u201cBut they really worked, actually the day of the Boston game, yesterday, and even this morning to be available tonight. So it\u2019s great to have them back, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 Still out was Herro, missing a sixth game with an ongoing toe contusion.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Herro made the trip, despite missing all three games, with Nikola Jovic (elbow) and Pelle Larsson (ankle) remained behind to rehab.<\/p>\n
\u2013 \u201cNo, it\u2019s part of the process,\u201d Spoelstra said. \u201cHe\u2019s working diligently as well. And as soon as he can get back to feeling like he can move the way he wants to move, he\u2019ll be back out there.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 Mitchell spoke pregame of his absence in Boston.<\/p>\n
\u2013 \u201cJust being a back-to-back, it was kind of still sore after it happened,\u201d he said of being injured in Friday night\u2019s victory in Brooklyn. \u201cAnd we knew we had a game here, so we didn\u2019t want to make it worse, honestly. It was a back-to-back, so it was a little bit more sore than it was today.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 Of how it happened, Mitchell said, \u201cIt happened on a play. When Dru (Smith) got a steal and I stepped on his foot after the layup. That\u2019s when it hurt throughout the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 Jaquez Jr. was first off the Heat bench again.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Followed by Simone Fontecchio.<\/p>\n
\u2013 And then Dru Smith together with Jakucionis, who apparently now is a rotation player.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Mitchell\u2019s sixth assist was the 1,200th of his career.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Powell\u2019s second assist was the 1,000th of his career.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Adebayo is now three games from tying Alonzo Mourning on the Heat\u2019s all-time regular-season games list.<\/p>\n
\u2013 The game marked the earliest the Heat have concluded a season series against the Knicks. The previous earliest was on Jan. 29 in 2003.<\/p>\n
\u2013 So the Heat are done with the Knicks without having yet to play Atlanta, Houston, Indiana, Minnesota, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, Phoenix, Utah or Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Observations and other notes of interest from Sunday night\u2019s 132-125 loss to the New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,1263,37821,21,9,11,10,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-77548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-latest-headlines","9":"tag-miami-heat","10":"tag-miami-heat-blog","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}