Report: Heat have one last card to play as injury report changes
Jun 12, 2023, 10:44 AM
It started to feel like we wouldn’t be seeing Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro in these NBA Finals.
But with the Denver Nuggets taking a commanding 3-1 lead on Friday night and having a chance to close the Heat out later this evening at Ball Arena, it appears that Miami is desperate.
First, they changed their injury report to update Herro to questionable. A few minutes later, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski said Herro will try to play, before hedging that just a little bit. Here are both his tweets.
The hope is that Herro doesn't suffer a setback ahead of Game 5 and can still manage the discomfort in his right hand, sources said. Herro has been out since fracturing the hand in Game 1 vs. Milwaukee in the opening round of the Eastern Conference playoffs. https://t.co/EH6T4ukkbB
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 12, 2023
Herro broke his hand in Game 1 of Round 1 against the Milwaukee Bucks and hasn’t suited up for Miami since. He averaged 20.1 points per game in the regular season for a Heat team that was last in scoring in the NBA, so Herro would be a big boost.
Miami has scored in the 90s in three of the four games in this series, all three of their losses. They managed 111 points in a Game 2 win, but that looks like an outlier and not the norm.
The Nuggets can win their first-ever NBA title with a victory. Herro looks to be Miami’s final gasp to try to prevent that from happening.
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