Coming off a career-high 77 games, it’s been an injury-riddled 2025-26 season for Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro.
Hoping to play well enough to earn an extension, which he won’t be eligible for again until next summer, the 6-foot-5 guard has missed 20 of the team’s 26 games. He missed the team’s first 17 coming off offseason ankle surgery and has missed three of the last four with a nagging toe injury.
And it’s not getting better, he admitted on Wednesday.
“It hasn’t really gotten better, so I tried to warm up and I just wasn’t feeling right that night,” Herro said about his late scratch Monday, according to Anthony Chiang of the Miami Herald. “I’m just trying to control the swelling and the inflammation, and then from there I can kind of decide what I want to do from there.”
Herro admitted that he underwent his second MRI in less than two weeks on Tuesday, while also receiving a Toradol shot. Both scans revealed that he has a right foot contusion. Though he’s still going to make the Heat’s three-game road trip, which begins Thursday against the Brooklyn Nets.
“I just got to rest it and calm it down until I get back to normal,” Herro said. “I’m going on the trip, so I’m hopeful that I’ll be back at some point on the trip, if not, then hopefully the week at home.”
In six games, Herro averaged 23.2 points, 5.0 rebounds, 2.3 assists and one steal per game. He’s shooting 50.5 percent from the floor and 40.5 percent from 3-point range on 6.2 triple tries per game, which would be his lowest per-game volume since 2020-21, his second season.
Where his struggles have come is defensively and as a playmaker in the Heat’s new offense. His struggles defensively — even though he’s shown moments on- and off-ball — aren’t new. His struggles as a playmaker are new, though it directly correlates to the Heat’s lack of ball screens, when he was their most frequent pick-and-roll ballhandler.
There was always going to be an adjustment period. Needless to say, the longer he’s inactive, the longer that “adjustment period” will last. It will also be difficult for the Heat to find any sort of rhythm if the rotation keeps oscillating night-to-night.
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I hope Ty’s foot gets better, particularly as it impacts his tradability. I wish him all success, but he should be dealt, not because it’s his fault that the Heat have fared worse since he’s been back. His responsibility is only a small part of that as it is more the fault of a team lacking the overall talent and collective ability that is to blame. But, it is part of why he should be dealt. The major reasons are, one; he is injury prone, two; he cannot possibly play up to the value of his new contract, he isn’t, IMHO, worth the contract he has now, three; he gets targeted on defense, four; there is redundancy at his position where we already have a better player, five; he could bring something back in an area of more need. We have been proven to be mediocre with him, let’s get something with him to improve us as we won’t miss him at his position. I don’t know how the rationale for trading him could be any clearer.
Furthermore, I also said Jovic was our weak link far before it became apparent to everyone. I said give Ware time, he will be very good, before he showed flashes of that, although he is far from a finished product. And everyone knows what else I said about the make up of our team, which still remains true. I also keep pointing out that Riley, as good as he was, is just okay now and we could be better served by a better GM.
I’ve said these things even though they irked some because they are, in my opinion, valid observations that I believed to be true when I said them and have withstood the test of time over the last few years. I took ownership on being wrong about Jaime, who I really like now. If time proves me to be wrong in anything else I will fess up about it. I don’t enjoy saying derogatory things but I do feel it’s important in the interest of honest observatory commentary. I don’t want any credit and I don’t want everyone to agree with me. All I want is to say what I think as honestly as possible and to see the Heat win.
Will Herro’s foot prevent Miami from trading him before the deadline. Hmm?
It may limit his market.