{"id":75844,"date":"2024-05-01T17:21:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T21:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=75844"},"modified":"2024-05-01T17:21:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T21:21:27","slug":"miami-heat-injury-news-another-starter-ruled-for-game-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/05\/01\/miami-heat-injury-news-another-starter-ruled-for-game-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Heat Injury News: Another Starter Ruled For Game 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More bad news with Miami Heat injury updates as they will be without their rookie and starter for game five in Boston tonight.<\/p>\n<h2>Miami Heat Injury News: Another Starter Ruled For Game 5<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Jaime Jaquez Jr. Injured<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miami Heat&#8217;s injuries just keep piling up. Another starter whose presence in tonight&#8217;s matchup seems all but lost is rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jaqueja01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jaime Jaquez Jr<\/a>. The Heat organization has revealed that Jaquez is grappling with a right hip issue that arose in game four earlier this week.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just my right hip. I felt something give at the beginning of the third quarter going up for a rebound,&#8221; Jaquez shared. I tried to give it everything I had. Just take it day by day.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jaquez didn\u2019t see the floor for the entirety of the fourth quarter in Miami\u2019s loss on Monday due to this injury. He has\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">been officially ruled<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0out of tonight\u2019s win-or-go-home matchup. That same game on Monday saw Celtics big man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/porzikr01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> also leave with a reported calf <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/04\/30\/key-celtics-star-marked-out-for-game-5\/\" target=\"_self\">injury<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MIAvsBOS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MIAvsBOS<\/a> INJURY UPDATE: Terry Rozier (neck) and Jaime Jaquez, Jr. (right hip flexor strain) have both been ruled out of tomorrow night\u2019s Game 5 vs the Celtics.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Miami HEAT (@MiamiHEAT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiamiHEAT\/status\/1785383071241392592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Terry Rozier Remains Sidelined<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/r\/roziete01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Terry Rozier<\/a>, who the Heat traded for earlier in the year, has been out since before the end of the regular season. Dealing with neck spasms, Miami head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/04\/29\/thunders-mark-daigneault-named-2023-24-coach-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_self\">Erik Spoelstra<\/a> has stated that Rozier is day-to-day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Losing Rozier has significantly impacted the Heat\u2019s playoff performance thus far. Heat teammate\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/herroty01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Tyler Herro<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0recently pointed out that the Heat \u201cdon\u2019t have a point guard right now.\u201d Miami has struggled\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">mightily<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0to score points in their series against the Boston Celtics. Rozier\u2019s 23.2 points per game and solid point guard play carried the expectation of impact. If he were playing and healthy, Miami might have this series a lot closer than it currently is.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Miami Heat&#8217;s Injuries Have All But Closed The Door This Year<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It remains to\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">be seen<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0if Jaquez or Rozier will have another chance to play this year. Along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/butleji01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jimmy Butler<\/a>, they will\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">be sidelined<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0until healthy. However, depending on how Miami fairs in tonight\u2019s game, there is a real possibility these players have played their final minutes of the season. Miami Heat injuries have been a dark spot this time around, that&#8217;s for sure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2023\/11\/29\/miami-heat-jaime-jaquez-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Jaquez Jr<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statmuse.com\/nba\/ask\/jaime-jaquez-jr.-career-playoff-stats\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">averaging<\/a> 12.8 points in this first-round series. Having possibly played his last game this year, Jaquez will likely land on an\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/04\/02\/2023-24-nba-all-rookie-teams-predictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">All-Rookie<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0first-team spot at some point, as he should.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More bad news with Miami Heat injury updates as they will be without their rookie and starter for game five in Boston tonight. Miami Heat Injury News: Another Starter Ruled For Game 5 Jaime Jaquez Jr. Injured Miami Heat&#8217;s injuries just keep piling up. Another starter whose presence in tonight&#8217;s matchup seems all but lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5081,"featured_media":75855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,16,3],"tags":[302,583,49152,142,138,1096,427,1896],"class_list":["post-75844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-heat","category-news","tag-boston-celtics","tag-erik-spoelstra","tag-jaime-jaquez-jr","tag-jimmy-butler","tag-kristaps-porzingis","tag-nba-all-rookie-first-team","tag-terry-rozier","tag-tyler-herro"],"modified_by":"Eamon Cassels, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}