MIAMI — The good news with Davion Mitchell’s left shoulder bruise is no MRI for now for the Miami Heat point guard. The concern is the “for now” part.

Jolted after attempting to maneuver defensively through a screen in Tuesday night’s 127-121 victory over the Phoenix Suns at Kaseya Center, Mitchell was held out of Wednesday’s practice, with the team saying no testing was needed beyond the X-ray taken when he exited in the third quarter.

“I’m doing alright, working with the trainers,” Mitchell said on the Heat practice court. “I’m feeling a little bit better than yesterday.

“After the foul, I had to go get an X-ray, and then when my adrenaline kind of calmed down, I felt like this is when it hurt the worst, and I was like, ‘Bro, I can’t lift my arm.’ ”

By Wednesday he could, but was still uncertain about what that meant ahead of Thursday night’s home game against the Boston Celtics.

“Obviously, it’s still in pain, but I’m doing better,” Mitchell said. “I didn’t have to get an MRI. The doc said it was no need. He kind of felt and saw what he wanted to see from the X-ray.

“But obviously, if I’m still doing worse or the same tomorrow, then we probably wouldn’t make that adjustment and get an MRI.”

In Mitchell’s absence, Jaime Jaquez Jr. and Dru Smith filled in as primary ballhandlers.

Erik Spoelstra said the Heat would be judicious.

“It was a pretty hard hit on that screen,” the Heat coach said. “He’s taken a lot of hits on screens.

He’s so physical on the ball.”

The play was typical of the moments when Mitchell has been able to coax offensive fouls for illegal screens.

Mitchell has missed two games this season, both losses, on Dec. 6 against the Sacramento Kings, due to groin tightness, and on Dec. 19 against the Celtics, due to an ankle sprain. Smith started in his place against the Kings, rookie Kasparas Jakucionis in his place against the Celtics.

Ware v. Adebayo

With 7-foot Kel’el Ware playing off the bench behind Bam Adebayo the past three games, it again has become an either/or approach from Spoelstra with his primary big men.

That has had Ware playing exactly 16:26 in each of the past two games, and 17:08 the previous game. That was after playing 28:07 in his most-recent start, four games ago in the road loss last week against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Spoelstra said the mix remains a work in progress.

“We’ll work it out,” he said. “There’ll be some games it’ll make sense to play both of them. Many of our rotations are super important and (Tuesday) night it was a speed game, a smaller game. But Kel’el had a big impact on the game in his minutes.”

Ware closed with 10 points and five rebounds in his short minutes against the Suns, shooting 2 of 3 on 3-pointers.

“That’s what he has to focus on,” Spoelstra said of Ware providing productivity, “and that’ll earn him more minutes. That’ll earn trust, not just with the head coach, but with the players.

“He’s still young, so he’s developing. We’re invested fully in that development, and we’ll continue to work on all of our lineups.”

Three sit

In addition to Mitchell, Jaquez (left knee soreness) and forward Nikola Jovic (right knee soreness) also did not practice Wednesday.

Jaquez played to the finish Tuesday night, going 31:11 and closing with 16 points and eight assists, closing without a turnover. Jaquez’s final assist led to the Norman Powell 3-pointer with 48.3 seconds to play that put the Heat ahead for good.

Jovic played only 6:07 Tuesday night, his only second-half action coming when he entered for Tyler Herro for the final 17.3 seconds of the third quarter. He finished with one points, three rebounds and two turnovers.