Dwyane Wade made his first start in two weeks Friday night after missing six games with a sprained right ankle.

Wade sprained the ankle in the Heat’s loss in Denver on Jan. 13. Two nights earlier, Wade strained his left calf in a loss to the Clippers, and nine days before that, Wade bruised his left foot in a loss to the Hawks.

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said part of the reason for Wade’s absence was for the team to ensure a complete recovery.

“If it was simply one of the injuries, [Wade] would have been fine,” Spoelstra said. “It was the summation of all [of them], and then the sprained ankle we decided to slow everything down and get the body right with rest.”

Before Friday’s game against the Knicks, the Heat was 5-4 with Wade in the lineup. Without Wade, Miami is 8-1. In nine games this season, Wade is averaging 19.6 points, 5.4 assists and 4.3 rebounds in 35 minutes.

Curry’s old ties

For Heat center Eddy Curry, this weekend’s games might serve as a trip down memory lane. Before signing with Miami last fall, Curry spent the previous five years of his career with New York.

Curry’s play with the Knicks vacillated greatly. He had the best season of his career in New York, when he averaged 19.5 points and seven rebounds during the 2006-07 campaign. But Curry was bothered by nagging injuries in the three seasons after that, and he played in a combined 69 games from 2007 to 2010. Curry said he is not burdened by memories of his days at Madison Square Garden.

“I don’t think about [New York], honestly,” Curry said. “I look at that as the past. This is where I am right now, so this is what I’m focusing on.”

On Sunday, the Heat faces the Chicago Bulls, Curry’s hometown team and the organization that drafted him with the fourth overall pick of the 2001 NBA Draft.

Healthy at last

With Wade participating in Friday’s shootaround, Spoelstra said it was the first time all 15 players had been healthy this season. Even in training camp, Mike Miller was sidelined following a sports hernia procedure.

“It was a very enthusiastic shootaround,” Spoelstra said. “Guys are excited that we’re whole. We’re enjoying it right now.”

Spoelstra said much of Miami’s success without Wade was because of the Heat’s increased options.

“We’re able to [play well without Wade] because of the depth that we didn’t necessarily have last year,” Spoelstra said. “Right when Dwyane got hurt, [Miller] became available. If we didn’t have Mike, we probably would have struggled a little bit more.”

• Mickell Gladness and Terrel Harris were the Heat’s inactives Friday.