Miami Heat-OKC Thunder Injury Update: Star player's status up in the air

The Miami Heat announced that guard Tyler Herro is now questionable to play in Sunday night's game against the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder with a rib contusion and toe contusion.

In eight games this season, Herro is averaging 22.1 points, 5.8 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 0.9 steals, converting on 48.9 percent of his field goals, 34.7 percent of his threes and 93.8 percent of his free throws.

Here's the rest of the injury report and game preview:

INJURY REPORT

HEAT

Tyler Herro: Questionable - Rib, Toe

Terry Rozier: Out - Not with team

THUNDER

Isaiah Hartenstein: Out - Calf

Nikola Topic: Out - Testicular Cancer

Thomas Sorber: Out - Knee

Game date, time and location: Sunday, Jan. 11, 7:00 p.m. EST, Paycom Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

TV: FanDuel Sports Network Sun, WPLG Local 10 (South Florida), FanDuel Sports Network Oklahoma

Radio: 104.3 FM (Miami/Ft. Lauderdale), ESPN 106.3 FM, (West Palm Beach), FOX Sports Radio 105.9 FM (Ft. Myers/Naples), 1450 AM (Suart), 97.7 FM (Florida Keys), WAQI 710 AM (Spanish-language broadcast, South Florida), 98.1 FM, AM 930 (Oklahoma)

VITALS: The Miami Heat (20-18) and Oklahoma City Thunder (32-7) meet for the first of two regular season matchups. Oklahoma City has currently won four-straight against the Heat while Miami had won six consecutive prior to that. The Heat are 30-44 all-time versus the OKC Thunder during the regular season, including 16-21 in games at home and 14-23 in games on the road.

PROJECTED STARTERS

HEAT

G Davion Mitchell

G Tyler Herro

C Bam Adebayo

F Norman Powell

F Andrew Wiggins

THUNDER

G Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

G Aaron Wiggins

C Chet Holmgren

F Lugentz Dort

F Jalen Williams

Betting Lines (via FanDuel Sportsbook)

Spread: Heat +14.5 (-114), Thunder -14.5 (-106)

Moneyline: Heat +570, Thunder -820

Total points scored: 235.5 (over -106, under -114)

QUOTABLE

Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra on if the blowout loss to Indiana Pacers was about not hitting enough shots or if there was more to it than that: "I mean, no, we had plenty of opportunities to work our way back in to it. It felt like emotionally, mentally, physically, we were really ramped up and ready to play in Chicago. Tonight, I don't know if I have that feeling, particularly to start this game, and they made us pay for it."

"Started out with turnover, score, turnover and then foul, foul, foul, and then we were playing from behind and in the mud the rest of the way. It's a level of inconsistency right now, not the entire season, right now, that we have to correct to put ourselves in better position to win."

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Alexander Toledo is a contributor to Miami Heat On SI and producer/co-host of the Five on the Floor podcast, covering the Heat and NBA. He can be reached at Twitter: @tropicalblanket