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Miami Heat's Caleb Martin Questionable Tonight In Game 2 Against Denver Nuggets

Miami Heat forward Caleb Martin is dealing with a head injury
Miami Heat's Caleb Martin Questionable Tonight In Game 2 Against Denver Nuggets
Miami Heat's Caleb Martin Questionable Tonight In Game 2 Against Denver Nuggets

Miami Heat forward Caleb Martin is listed as questionable for tonight's Game 2 against the Denver Nuggets in the NBA Finals. 

Martin is dealing with some sort of head issue. 

Here's the game preview: 

Game time: 8:30 p.m., ET

Where: Ball Arena

TV: ABC

Betting line: Heat +8.5

VITALS: The Miami Heat and Nuggets met twice this regular season with Denver winning both matchups, each by five points or less. Miami is 34-38 all-time versus Denver during the regular season, including 20-15 in home games and 14-23 in road games. The teams enter this postseason having never faced each other in NBA Finals history with the Nuggets making their first appearance. The HEAT enter the series marking their seventh NBA Finals appearance, recording a 3-3 series record with NBA Championships in 2006, 2012 and 2013. For the Heat, Caleb Martin (head) is questionable and Victor Oladipo (knee) and Tyler Herro (hand) are out.

PROJECTED STARTERS

HEAT

G Max Strus

G Gabe Vincent

C Bam Adebayo

F Kevin Love

F Jimmy Butler

NUGGETS

F Michael Porter Jr

F Aaron Gordon

C Nikola Jokic

G Jamal Murray

G Kentavious Caldwell-Pope

QUOTABLE

Heat forward Jimmy Butler: "Maybe I have to be a little bit more aggressive. I've got to put pressure on the rim. Me with no free throws, that was all on myself, nobody else. So we'll definitely correct that the next game, but only I can do that."

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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