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Miami Heat-Cleveland Cavs Injury Report: Duncan Robinson Out, Jimmy Butler Questionable

Duncan Robinson (back) added to the Miami Heat injury report for Wednesday's game against the Cleveland Cavaliers
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Miami Heat-Cleveland Cavs Injury Report: Duncan Robinson Out, Jimmy Butler Questionable
Miami Heat-Cleveland Cavs Injury Report: Duncan Robinson Out, Jimmy Butler Questionable

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Miami Heat forward Duncan Robinson will not play Wednesday against the Cleveland Cavaliers. 

The team sent him home to Miami to see a back specialist. 

Here's the game preview: 

Game time: 7 pm., ET

Where: Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse, Cleveland

TV: Bally Sports

Betting line: N/A

VITALS: The Heat and Cavaliers meet for the second of three matchups this regular season. Earlier this season, Miami recorded a 33-point, 129-96, win on 11/22 in Cleveland and has now won 15 of the last 20 overall against the Cavs. The Heat are 77-50 all-time versus Cleveland during the regular season, including 49-15 in home games and 28-35 in road games.

PROJECTED STARTERS

HEAT

G Terry Rozier

G Duncan Robinson

C Bam Adebayo

F Jaime Jaquez

F Haywood Highsmith

CAVALIERS

F Isaac Okoro

F Georges Niang

C Jarrett Allen

G Darius Garland

G Caris LeVert

INJUY REPORT

HEAT

Jamal Cain: Out - G League - Two-Way

Tyler Herro: Out - Right Foot Medial Tendinitis

Kevin Love: Out - Right Heel Bruise

Jimmy Butler: Questionable -Right foot contusion

Josh Richardson: Out - Right Shoulder Surgery

Alondes Williams: Out - G League - Two-Way

Nikola Jovic: Questionable - Hamstring strain

Duncan Robinson: Out - Back

CAVALIERS

Donovan Mitchell: Questionable - Knee

Dean Wde: Out - Knee

QUOTABLE

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra on Duncan Robinson playing through injury Monday against the Detroit Pistons: “You absolutely love Duncan. He couldn’t move coming into the game, just the workload, everything, the flight, or whatever. He just couldn’t move. But he’s a competitor, and he’s like, ‘Whatever we need, I’ll be out there.’ And it was tough.”

Miami Heat's Duncan Robinson More Vital With Tyler Herro Sidelined Indefinitely

Shandel Richardson covers the Miami Heat for Inside The Heat, a Fan Nation channel for Sports Illustrated. He has covered the NBA since 2010.

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SHANDEL RICHARDSON

Shandel has covered the NBA since 2010, with previous stops at The Athletic and South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He has covered six NBA Finals, one Super Bowl, the NCAA basketball tournament. He has also been a beat writer for the Miami Hurricanes and contributed on every major beat in South Florida since 2003, including the Miami Dolphins and Miami Marlins. He can also be read in the Sportsbook Review for gambling coverage from around the NBA. A native of Bloomington, Illinois, Shandel attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He's also worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Kansas City Star. TWITTER: @ShandelRich EMAIL: shandelrich@gmail.com You can subscribe to our YouTube channel here Follow all of our Miami Heat coverage on Facebook here

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