{"id":558202,"date":"2026-01-24T18:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T18:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/558202\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T18:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T18:03:15","slug":"is-lauri-markkanen-playing-tonight-jazz-vs-heat-injury-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/558202\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Lauri Markkanen playing tonight? Jazz vs. Heat injury report"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Miami Heat<\/a> visit the Utah Jazz<\/a> on Saturday night. Lauri Markkanen<\/a> is on the injury report<\/a> alongside Jusuf Nurkic, with one player listed as questionable, and the other is doubtful. Markkanen is dealing with an illness and reconditioning<\/a>, while Nurkic is dealing with an illness. Here’s everything we know about Lauri Markkanen’s injury and his playing status vs. the Heat.<\/p>\n

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Lauri Markkanen injury status vs. Heat\"JazzKen Blaze-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Given Lauri Markkanen is questionable on the injury report, there’s a chance he will be suiting up against the Heat. Markkanen has been a fixure on the injury report these days. Markkanen last played in a 123-122 win<\/a> against the Cavs on January 12.<\/p>\n

The Jazz are 1-5 throughout their six-game stretch without Markkanen, including a 126-109 loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday. Utah beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 127-122 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Markkanen is having one of the best seasons of his career. He’s averaging a career-best 27.9 points on 48.3% shooting, including 36.5% from deep, 7.2 rebounds, and 1.0 steals per game for the Jazz this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ace Bailey (25 points) and Keyonte George (23 points) combined for 48 points in Thursday’s loss to the Spurs. Perhaps Markkanen’s return will return the Jazz to the winning column. The Jazz are 15-30 on the season, which is the third-worst record in the Western Conference standings.<\/p>\n

Still, when it comes to the question is Lauri Markkanen is playing tonight vs. the Heat, the answer is maybe.<\/p>\n

Jazz injury report<\/p>\n

Walker Kessler \u2014 Out \u2014 Left shoulder injury recovery<\/p>\n

Kevin Love \u2014 Out \u2014 Left knee contusion<\/p>\n

Lauri Markkanen \u2014 Questionable \u2014 Return to competition reconditioning<\/p>\n

Georges Niang \u2014 Out \u2014 Left foot; fourth metatarsal stress fracture<\/p>\n

Jusuf Nurkic \u2014 Doubtful \u2014 Illness<\/p>\n

Heat injury report<\/p>\n

Tyler Herro \u2014 Out \u2014 Right costochondral; injury to the ribs<\/p>\n

Jamie Jaquez Jr. \u2014 Available \u2014 Left knee sprain<\/p>\n

Pelle Larsson \u2014 Probable \u2014 Left 3rd mallet finger<\/p>\n

Davion Mitchell \u2014 Questionable \u2014 Left shoulder sprain<\/p>\n

Norman Powell \u2014 Questionable \u2014 Lower back tightness<\/p>\n

Kel’el Ware \u2014 Out \u2014 Right hamstring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Heat visit the Utah Jazz on Saturday night. Lauri Markkanen is on the injury report alongside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,423,976,189,6,14502,422,427,3972],"class_list":{"0":"post-558202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jazz","10":"tag-lauri-markkanen","11":"tag-miami-heat","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-injury","14":"tag-utah","15":"tag-utah-jazz","16":"tag-utahjazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115951397424204184","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558202","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=558202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}