Q: The Heat needs Tyler Herro to be part of a trade package. \u2013 Ev.<\/p>\n
Q: Just trade him. \u2013 Dime.<\/p>\n
Q: Trade him, \u2013 Jason.<\/p>\n
Q: Sell high. \u2013 Todd.<\/p>\n
Q: Time to move on. \u2013 Yasser.<\/p>\n
Q:\u00a0 Please trade this man. \u2013 Sco.<\/p>\n
Q: They could trade Tyler for Anthony Davis and no one would ever know, since neither would show up. \u2013 Stan.<\/p>\n
A: Or a player could have simply gotten hurt again, apparently when he attempted to block a shot in the Jan. 10 game against the Pacers, when he was called for a foul while he took a bump in the same rib area that the injury report has cited. Look, injuries happen, and some are unfortunate. But not only don\u2019t you discard a player when he is down, you can\u2019t afford to. You don\u2019t sell low. The question now becomes whether Tyler Herro makes it back<\/a> in enough time before the Feb. 5 NBA trading deadline for the Heat to fully assess this mix. And while it has been mentioned in this space that draft capital for Norman Powell might be one way to go for the Heat, that was based on the supposition of Tyler stepping in as a scoring leader. Now, nothing is a given.<\/p>\n Q:\u00a0 Ira, the broken wrist, the surgery on his ankle and the missed time with both injuries, we all understand.\u00a0 Bruised ribs? Many a football player who sustains bruised, fractured, and even broken ribs suits up and plays in a far more violent game than basketball. Norman Powell plays hurt all the time and has a mindset of \u201cfor the love of the game, play through the pain\u201d disposition.\u00a0 Herro missed all of training camp, then the toe injury and now his ribs hurt. At some point, teammates will make a judgement<\/a> on if the person next to them is tough enough mentally and physically to have their back in battle.\u00a0 Coaches are more forgiving of constant injuries than players are, and while they may not openly state it, sometimes it\u2019s about what players aren\u2019t saying in support of another that reveals the true sentiment.\u00a0 \u2013 Brian, Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n A: Or perhaps something is decidedly wrong in a sport that features 82 regular-season games and the only ones that people remember are the ones that follow. Look, for all the Tyler Herro hating (see the above), there thankfully remains a degree of empathy in our society. So from the very same feed where many questioned Tyler on Monday, there also were responses of: \u201cIt is real, my son had it.\u201d \u2013 Ivan;\u00a0 \u201cI had a Costochondral separation. I still get inflammation occasionally. Costochondritis is very painful. It hurts to breathe.\u201d \u2013 Vatnik.<\/p>\n Q: It\u2019s hilarious how so many people, including Pat Riley, talked about Jimmy Butler\u2019s availability, yet Herro has been less available. \u2013 Scott.<\/p>\n A: And this also can be true. But there also is a difference between not wanting to play and not being able to play. As it is, both now are sidelined with very real injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Q: The Heat needs Tyler Herro to be part of a trade package. \u2013 Ev. Q: Just trade…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[3879,7,144,165,295,189,3880,3881,6,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-549029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-ask-ira","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-heat","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-miami","13":"tag-miami-heat","14":"tag-miami-heat-blog","15":"tag-miamiheat","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115928043826993406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}