The San Antonio Spurs announced that guard Devin Vassell (hamstring) will be available to play in Monday night’s game against the Miami Heat after being listed as questionable originally.
Vassell missed the Spurs’ last game, a win over the Indiana Pacers.
Here’s the rest of the injury report and ganme preview alongside rotation/matchup analysis.
ANALYSIS
With this news, the Heat will finally be fully healthy again. Expect Wiggins to re-enter the starting lineup with Bam Adebayo, Tyler Herro, Pelle Larsson and Davion Mitchell.
Off the bench, the Heat will have Powell, Jaquez, Kel’el Ware, and one or both of Kasparas Jakucionis and Dru Smith.
For the Spurs, Castle and Vassell will likely be re-entering their starting unit as well. Expect them to play Dylan Harper, Luke Kornet, Keldon Johnson and Julian Champagnie off the bench.
In all likelihood, Adebayo will be matched up on Victor Wembanyama, Mitchell will be guarding Fox, Larsson will be defending Castle, Wiggins defending Barnes and Herro defending Vassell.
INJURY REPORT
HEAT
Norman Powell: Available – Calf
Jaime Jaquez Jr.: Available – Hip
Andrew Wiggins: Available – Knee
Trevor Keels: Out – G League/Two-Way
Jahmir Young: Out – G League/Two-Way
Vlad Goldin: Out – G League/Two-Way
Terry Rozier: Out – Not with team
SPURS
Stephon Castle: Available – Back
Devin Vassell: Available – Knee
Harrison Ingram: Out – G League/Two-Way
Emanuel Miller: Out – G League/Two-Way
David Jones Garcia: Out – Ankle, G League/Two-Way
VITALS: The Miami Heat (38-33) and San Antonio Spurs (53-18) meet for the second and final regular season matchup. Earlier this season, the Spurs recorded a win on October 30 in San Antonio. Miami swept the previous two series’ and has currently won five of the last six overall against the Spurs. The Heat are 30-46 all-time versus San Antonio during the regular season, including 21-17 in home games and 9-29 in road games.
The Heat head into this game as the ninth seed in the East, one game ahead of the tenth-seeded Charlotte Hornets, half a game behind the eighth-seeded Orlando Magic, one game behind the sixth and seventh-seeded Atlanta Hawks and Philadelphia 76ers and 1.5 games behind the fifth-seeded Toronto Raptors.
The Spurs, on the other hand, are coming into this game as the second seed, three games behind the first-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder and seven games ahead of the Los Angeles Lakers.
Game date, time and location: Monday, Mar. 23, 7:00 p.m. EST, Kaseya Center, Miami, Florida
TV: Peacock
Radio: 104.3 FM (Miami/Ft. Lauderdale), ESPN 106.3 FM, (West Palm Beach), FOX Sports Radio 105.9 FM (Ft. Myers/Naples), 1450 AM (Suart), 97.7 FM (Florida Keys), WAQI 710 AM (Spanish-language broadcast, South Florida), 1200 AM, 107.5 FM (San Antonio)
PROJECTED STARTERS
HEAT
G Davion Mitchell
G Tyler Herro
C Bam Adebayo
F Pelle Larsson
F Andrew Wiggins
SPURS
G De’Aaron Fox
G Stephon Castle
C Victor Wembanyama
F Devin Vassell
F Harrison Barnes
Spread: Heat +3.5 (-106), Spurs -3.5 (-114)
Moneyline: Heat +148, Spurs -176
Total points scored: 243.5 (over -106, under -114)
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QUOTABLE
Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra after loss to Houston Rockets: “We just have to stay with it. We’ve been talking about having a collective girt. We felt that we showed that grit throughout the course of that game, the ups and downs, through the highs and lows and made a couple big-time defensive plays down the stretch.”
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Alexander Toledo is a contributor to Miami Heat On SI and producer/co-host of the Five on the Floor podcast, covering the Heat and NBA. He can be reached at Twitter: @tropicalblanket
