Live updates: Adebayo, Wiggins out Monday but Herro returns. Where things stand
The Heat is dealing with injuries to its three best players at a most inopportune time.
Center Bam Adebayo will miss Monday’s home game against Philadelphia because of lower back spasms (7:30 p.m., Bally Sports Sun). Erik Spoelstra said the spasms began after Saturday’s loss to Milwaukee and “we will treat him day to day.”
Forward Andrew Wiggins (hamstring) also is out; Spoelstra said he’s “very close” to returning and went through a full shootaround Monday.
Meanwhile, guard Tyler Herro, who missed a game with a right thigh contusion, will be available Monday.
Guard Alec Burks - listed as questionable with lower back discomfort - also is available Monday.
Forward Haywood Highsmith (left Achilles soreness) remained questionable an hour before tipoff.
The Heat remains without forward Nikola Jovic (hand), forward Kevin Love (personal reasons) and guards Isaiah Stevens (foot discomfort) and Dru Smith (torn Achilles’).
Wiggins has now missed 15 of 30 games since being acquired from Golden State in the Jimmy Butler trade. The hamstring injury has sidelined him the previous five games after missing time earlier with a sprained ankle, a lower-leg contusion and a stomach illness.
“Hopefully in the next couple of games I’ll find my way back on the court,” he said Saturday night.
Herro has missed only five of Miami’s first 78 games — one because of right groin tightness, one because of a stomach illness, one because of a head cold and now one because of the thigh.
“He was doing as much treatment as he could,” Erik Spoelstra said prior to Saturday’s game, declining to say if his status for the final week of the season is in doubt. “We’ll see; the body will let us know.”
A loss against Philadelphia — which is missing top three players Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey, Paul George and several other rotation players - would leave the Heat with only a slim chance, and needing substantial luck — to finish any higher than 10th in the Eastern Conference, a scenario that would require Miami to win two road games to advance to a first-round playoff series against Cleveland.
This story was originally published April 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM.
