{"id":351306,"date":"2025-12-16T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/351306\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T03:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:00:07","slug":"heats-nikola-jovic-exits-vs-raptors-with-elbow-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/351306\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat&#8217;s Nikola Jovic exits vs. Raptors with elbow injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.in\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-heat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heat<\/a> forward <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4997528\/nikola-jovic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikola Jovic<\/a> 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 game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.in\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-raptors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Heat later said it was an elbow injury.<\/p>\n<p>Jovic entered the game 12 seconds before the injury when he took a pass and was hit high by Toronto&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5093267\/collin-murray-boyles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Collin Murray-Boyles<\/a>. Jovic 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<p>The 22-year-old Jovic is in his fourth season with the Heat, who made the native of Serbia their first-round draft choice in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI &#8212; Heat forward Nikola Jovic walked off the court with a splint-like device over his right arm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-351306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}