{"id":573662,"date":"2026-01-31T21:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T21:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/573662\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T21:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T21:01:19","slug":"key-starter-out-for-heat-in-rematch-vs-bulls-with-shoulder-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/573662\/","title":{"rendered":"Key starter out for Heat in rematch vs. Bulls with shoulder injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Key starter out for Heat in rematch vs. Bulls with shoulder injury<\/a> appeared first on ClutchPoints<\/a>. Add ClutchPoints as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As the Miami Heat<\/a> deal with murky injury updates ahead of Saturday\u2019s game against the Chicago Bulls, there is no denying how undermanned the team will be in the rematch from Thursday night. While the Heat are looking to get out of eighth seed purgatory<\/a>, the team needs to be healthy, with Saturday being another hurdle, as key guards will miss the contest.<\/p>\n

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The key starter that\u2019s in question is point guard Davion Mitchell<\/a>, who will be absent for the game<\/a> against the Bulls, as he continues to deal with a left shoulder sprain.<\/p>\n

Saturday will mark the ninth in the last 11 games that Mitchell has missed, and also his sixth straight. He\u2019s been vital as Miami\u2019s starting point guard, leading the Heat by averaging 7.2 assists to go along with nine points per game on 47 percent shooting from the field.<\/p>\n

Along with Mitchell, Miami will also miss other guards such as Norman Powell<\/a> due to \u201cpersonal reasons,\u201d as he leads the team in averaging 23 points per game. Plus, in what has been an unfortunate common occurrence, Tyler Herro<\/a> will be missed with a rib injury that is listed as \u201cRight Costochondral; Injury to the Ribs,\u201d making Saturday his ninth straight absence and 39th total missed game.<\/p>\n

Heat\u2019s Erik Spoelstra<\/a> doesn\u2019t want to rush Davion Mitchell\u2019s recovery\"Alonzo<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s no denying Mitchell\u2019s importance to the team as the Heat gave the guard a $24 million contract<\/a> last offseason after he stood out in the latter half of the season, after being traded to Miami in the multi-team Jimmy Butler deal. Head coach Erik Spoelstra would speak on wanting to be careful<\/a> with Mitchell\u2019s injury and how rookie Kasparas Jakucionis and Dru Smith have done well filling in.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s our point of attack defender, and our pace is great with him. While he\u2019s been out, I think Kas [Jakucionis] and Dru [Smith] have done a very good job with both of those things,\u201d Spoelstra said before Wednesday\u2019s loss to the Orlando Magic. \u201cThey just do it in a different way. We miss him, but we want to be smart about it. I think if he was just doing non-contact right now, he\u2019d be fine. So we\u2019re just going to continue to treat him, and then he\u2019s doing more and more on the court\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

The Heat are 26-23, putting them eighth in the East as they take on the Bulls Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n

Related: Bam Adebayo reveals how Heat can get out of 8th seed purgatory<\/a><\/p>\n

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Related: Are Josh Giddey, Coby White playing tonight? Bulls vs. Heat injury report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key starter out for Heat in rematch vs. Bulls with shoulder injury appeared first on ClutchPoints. Add ClutchPoints…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[7,329,491,9481,1200,144,313,229,295,189,3881,6,558,76,75005,1176,492],"class_list":["post-573662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami-heat","tag-basketball","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-davion-mitchell","tag-dru-smith","tag-erik-spoelstra","tag-heat","tag-jimmy-butler","tag-kasparas-jakucionis","tag-miami","tag-miami-heat","tag-miamiheat","tag-nba","tag-norman-powell","tag-orlando-magic","tag-rib-injury","tag-the-heat","tag-tyler-herro"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115991733107743720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573662","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=573662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}