Tyler Herro admits toe injury hasn't gotten better - Hot Hot Hoops

Heat guard Tyler Herro has missed three of the last four games with a nagging toe injury. (Mandatory Credit: Alex Slitz/Getty Images)

Coming off a career-high 77 games, it’s been an injury-riddled 2025-26 season for Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro.

Hoping to play well enough to earn an extension, which he won’t be eligible for again until next summer, the 6-foot-5 guard has missed 20 of the team’s 26 games. He missed the team’s first 17 coming off offseason ankle surgery and has missed three of the last four with a nagging toe injury.

And it’s not getting better, he admitted on Wednesday.

“It hasn’t really gotten better, so I tried to warm up and I just wasn’t feeling right that night,” Herro said about his late scratch Monday, according to Anthony Chiang of the Miami Herald. “I’m just trying to control the swelling and the inflammation, and then from there I can kind of decide what I want to do from there.”

Herro admitted that he underwent his second MRI in less than two weeks on Tuesday, while also receiving a Toradol shot. Both scans revealed that he has a right foot contusion. Though he’s still going to make the Heat’s three-game road trip, which begins Thursday against the Brooklyn Nets.

“I just got to rest it and calm it down until I get back to normal,” Herro said. “I’m going on the trip, so I’m hopeful that I’ll be back at some point on the trip, if not, then hopefully the week at home.”

In six games, Herro averaged 23.2 points, 5.0 rebounds, 2.3 assists and one steal per game. He’s shooting 50.5 percent from the floor and 40.5 percent from 3-point range on 6.2 triple tries per game, which would be his lowest per-game volume since 2020-21, his second season.

Where his struggles have come is defensively and as a playmaker in the Heat’s new offense. His struggles defensively — even though he’s shown moments on- and off-ball — aren’t new. His struggles as a playmaker are new, though it directly correlates to the Heat’s lack of ball screens, when he was their most frequent pick-and-roll ballhandler.

There was always going to be an adjustment period. Needless to say, the longer he’s inactive, the longer that “adjustment period” will last. It will also be difficult for the Heat to find any sort of rhythm if the rotation keeps oscillating night-to-night.

Tyler Herro admits toe injury hasn’t gotten better – Hot Hot Hoops

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