Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro will miss the team’s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder with toe and rib injuries, the team announced roughly two hours before the 8 p.m. EST tip-off.
Herro has been battling a nagging toe injury for much of the last two months. He returned from an 11-game absence with the toe injury, but it appears to have flared up once again.
The rib injury, however, is new.
According to the Miami Herald’s Anthony Chiang, Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra revealed that it shouldn’t be a “long-term” absence.
Herro, who turns 26-years-old on Tuesday, has played in just 11 games this season. He is averaging 21.9 points, 4.7 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game, shooting 49.7 percent from the floor and 35.8 percent from 3-point range.
Outside of his playmaking — which has dropped precipitously in this new offense — Herro’s offense has largely been a plus. However, it will be impossible for him — and the team — to develop any sort of rhythm with these ongoing absences.
His health is out of his control, but it’s still thrown a wrench in the season. After all, Herro, Bam Adebayo and Norman Powell have played in just eight games together this season. They are 3-5, but own a plus-9.2 NET when all three share the floor.
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“The Miami Heat’s first half of the 2025-26 NBA season has pretty much gone as expected. After a hot start to the year, in which Miami was 14-7 after 21 games, the Heat have regressed to the mean and are 21-20 at the midway point of the year.
This very much has the feel of a “gap” year for the Heat, and even though they’re in the playoff picture, there isn’t much hope for this team making much noise in the Eastern Conference.
While much remains unsettled about the Heat’s future, there are a few difficult truths we’ve learned about where this team is now through the first half of this year.
So, if the Heat don’t score many points and lose, how can you blame Herro? Still trying to figure that out.
He’s not a superstar but after max money. How you figure that one out. With Powell on board, Herro is expendable. That’s why Ja makes no sense at all. Ja, Herro, Powell, Wiggins, Bam? Sounds like a plan.