nactive for the Heat were Herro<\/a>, Kasparas Jakucionis, Vlad Goldin and Terry Rozier, who again was listed as \u201cnot with team.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2013 Jakucionis went through shooting drills pregame, an encouraging sign in his work back from a groin strain.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Powell was listed as an active scratch.<\/p>\n
\u2013 That had two-way players Myron Gardner and Jahmir Young active on their two-way Heat contracts.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Asked whether he would be back for Sunday\u2019s game against the Lakers, the second stop on this four-game trip, Powell said, \u201cWe\u2019re taking it day by day now. So we\u2019ll see. I don\u2019t want to put anything out there and put pressure on anybody. But I\u2019ll just say that I don\u2019t plan on being out too long.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 The Spurs opened with a lineup of\u00a0 Harrison Barnes, Devin Vassell, Julian Champagnie, Victor Wembanyama and Stephon Castle.<\/p>\n
\u2013 It was Jaquez again as Heat sixth man.<\/p>\n
\u2013 With Dru Smith following.<\/p>\n
\u2013 And then together Nikola Jovic and Simone Fontecchio for nine deep.<\/p>\n
\u2013 That again left Keshad Johnson as the only other available from the standard rotation not in the initial mix.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said the challenges of this four-game trip are meaningful. \u201cYou have to embrace these opportunities,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is early in the season, but it\u2019s also something that\u2019s fun right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 The Heat entered having won a franchise-record five in a row against the Spurs, as well as five in a row in San Antonio, entering the night without a road loss to the Spurs since Jan. 19, 2020.<\/p>\n
\u2013 The Spurs entered seeking the first 5-0 start in franchise history.<\/p>\n
\u2013 With his first block, Wembanyama extended his streak of games with at least one to 90, training only NBA streaks of\u00a0 Patrick Ewing (145), Dikembe Mutombo (116) and Mark Eaton (94).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Observations and other notes of interest from Thursday night\u2019s 107-101 loss to the San Antonio…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3607,4852,20490,3080,82,84,83,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-30680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-latest-headlines","9":"tag-miami-heat","10":"tag-miami-heat-blog","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","14":"tag-san-antonio-news","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}