UPDATE: Jimmy Butler's Current Injury Status For Heat-Nets Game
UPDATE: Jimmy Butler is available.
On Monday evening, the Miami Heat will be in New York to face off against the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center.
For the game, the Heat could be without their best player, as six-time NBA All-Star Jimmy Butler is on the injury report.
Butler has missed each of the previous seven games, so this would be his eighth straight out of the lineup (if he doesn't play).
Via The Heat: "Jimmy Butler (toe) is listed as questionable."
Butler has played in 24 games and is averaging 21.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 1.0 steals per contest while shooting 46.4% from the field and 37.7% from the three-point range.
The Heat are the fifth seed in the Eastern Conference with a 23-16 record in their first 39 games.
They are 6-4 over their last ten games and are in the middle of a two-game winning streak.
Most recently, the Heat defeated the Charlotte Hornets (at home) by a score of 104-87.
Bam Adebayo led the team with 24 points, ten rebounds and seven assists.
Following the Nets, the Heat will travel to Canada to face off against the Toronto Raptors.
As for the Nets, they are the tenth seed in the Eastern Conference with a 16-22 record in their first 38 games.
They are in the middle of a two-game losing streak and are 3-7 over their last ten games.
Following the Heat, the Nets will travel to Oregon to face off against Scoot Henderson and the Portland Trail Blazers.
