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Miami Heat's Omer Yurtseven Ruled Out For Wednesday's Game Against Portland Trail Blazers

Yurtseven has yet to play this season because of an ankle injury
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Miami Heat's Omer Yurtseven Ruled Out For Wednesday's Game Against Portland Trail Blazers
Miami Heat's Omer Yurtseven Ruled Out For Wednesday's Game Against Portland Trail Blazers

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The Miami Heat will once again be without backup center Omer Yurtseven. 

The team officially announced he will not play Wednesday against the Portland Trail Blazers. Yurtseven has yet to play this season because of an ankle injury. 

The Heat are also without guard Victor Oladipo, who has dealt with various injuries since 2019. The Heat have maintained they plan to be patient with him. The good news for the Heat is center Omer Yurtseven did make the trip. After missing the first four games of the season, he is expected to make a return to the lineup at some point during the trip.

Despite starting the season with four straight home games, the Heat are just 1-3 entering the trip.

"I don’t think anybody would have anticipated, starting off with this home stretch, that we’d be 1-3,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “That’s sometimes the nature of this league. It’s tough. You can’t just mail in victories. You have to earn ‘em, and sometimes things don’t go exactly how you want them to go. And these are opportunities to come together and develop some collective resolve.”

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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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