
Miami Heat center Kel'el Ware could miss tonight's game against the Milwaukee Bucks. He is dealing with shoulder soreness.
Here's the full injury report:
HEAT
Kel'el Ware: Questionable (Shoulder)
Vlad Goldin: Out (G League)
Terry Rozier: Out (Not with team)
Nikola Jovic: Out (back)
Norman Powell: Out (groin)
Keshad Johnson: Out (G League)
Trevor Keels: Out (G League)
Simone Fontecchio: Probable (Groin)
Andrew Wiggins: Out (Toe)
Tyler Herro: Questionable (Quad)
Kel'el Ware: Questionable (Shoulder)
BUCKS
Alex Antetokounmpo: Out (G League)
Kevin Porter Jr: Questionable (knee)
Bobby Portis: Questionable (back)
Cormac Ryan: Out (G League)
Jericho Sims: Questionable (Knee)
Here's the game preview:
Game time: 7:30 p.m., Kaseya Center, Miami
TV: FanDuel Sports Network
Betting line: Heat -6.5
VITALS:
The Heat and Bucks meet for the third and final regular season matchup. So far this season, the teams have split the series, 1-1, with each squad winning on their home court. The Heat are 77-58 all-time versus Milwaukee during the regular season, including 42-24 in home games and 35-34 in road games. Kyle Kuzma led the Bucks in their last game on Tuesday with a season -high and Bucks career -best 33 points. With his 31st point of the night, he became the 63rd active NBA player to eclipse 10,000 career points while playing in the 600th contest of his career. Kuzma scored a season -high -tying 16 points in the third quarter of Tuesday's game en route to his third 30-point game of the season, and he’s now reached double figures in scoring in seven straight games, marking his second -longest such streak of the season. In 59 games this season, Kuzma is averaging 13.4 points, 4.7 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game while shooting a career -best 49.2% from the field and career -second - best 36.5% from three.
PROJECTED STARTERS
HEAT
F Pelle Larsson
F Myron Gardner
C Bam Adebayo
G Kasparas Jakucionis
G Davion Mitchell
BUCKS
F Giannis Antetokounmpo
F Kyle Kuzma
C Myles Turner
G Ryan Rollins
G Ousmane Dieng
QUOTABLE
ESPN analyst Tim McMahon on Bam Adebayo's 83-point game: "I'll admit I was cracking up laughing while watching but I never want to hear about Heat Culture and professional and all that crap again. That was the most blatant stat-chasing I've ever seen. It was the worst stat-chasing since Ricky Davis tried to get a rebound on the wrong basketball to get a triple-double. The difference is this was minutes and minutes to extend the game stat-chasing. I enjoyed the 39 by [Victor Wembanayama] than the egregious 83 but I'm old, I'm grumpy. I admit it."
ESPN's Brian Windhorst on Adebayo's game: "It's a special momentI would say this: Bam has gold medals. He's been in a couple of Finals. He will always have this. This will always be remembered. And you know what, seven, eight, 12, 15 years from now, people are not going to remember that they fouled at the end of the game."
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