MIAMI - Despite the problems of injuries throughout the regular season, the Miami Heat had hoped that their key bench players would be sufficiently healthy for playoff crucial.
Is not that it will be the case when they begin their series with the Boston Celtics Sunday afternoon.
Practice later Friday, heat coach Erik Spoelstra has been suggested that it was not count on Mike Miller and Udonis Haslem for game 1 and probably beyond.
Miller has a left thumb injury which he limited seven total minutes in the series of the first round with the Philadelphia 76ers.
Haslem has an injury to the slow-healing foot that he hoped he would return from a month ago, but also is not ready.
Miller has a new brace on his left thumb still more complex than the accolade for his right thumb, which needed surgery earlier this season. Spoelstra, said that the brace helps but he is always in fashion "assessment" on the availability of Miller. He was active but is not in the last three games.
"Coach includes I'll be ready if he calls my number of" Miller said. "If this is not the case, I'll be pom - pom girl best that i can be.".
Haslem, whose recovery was slowed by persistent pain who have little time to practice, has recently adapted to its workload and appeared near is enabled. But Spoelstra tried to throw water on this possibility.
"While we all see the light at the end of the tunnel, the series will not be our chronology [on Haslem]," Spoelstra said. "It may not happen next week or the next two weeks."
Haslem has admitted that recent strong piece of heat - they have won 19 of their past 23 games - can be made coaches are reluctant to change the rotation of the team to make room for him.
"All that I would love to be there, I understand that this is a very important series for us," Haslem said. "We have a fairly good chemistry right now and I do not want that disrupt.". I don't want to force anything right now. That being said, is not as easy as a decision as people think it would be and I understand. ?
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