Key faces are already sidelined for Miami

The Miami Heat (0-1) will take on the Charlotte Hornets (1-1) on Saturday evening at the Spectrum Center.

A healthy LaMelo Ball is tearing through teams to start the regular season, recording 32-plus points in each of the Hornets’ first two games. Meanwhile, the Heat were embarrassed in their debut by their Florida counterpart, the Orlando Magic.

In the second game alone, the Heat are already missing several key faces for various reasons.

Here is the full injury report from Saturday night:

HEAT

Josh Christopher: Available – Contusion of the right big toe

Kevin Love: Out – Personal reasons

Kel’el Ware: Out – Stomach Sickness

Josh Richardson: Questionable – Left heel enthesopathy

HORNETS

DaQuan Jeffries: Out – Hand

Brandon Miller: Off – Glute

Mark Williams: Off – Foot

Tidjane Salaun: Doubtful – Finger

Heat All-Star center Bam Adebayo, who is ready to go against Charlotte, shared his thoughts on the loss to the Magic.

“We played poorly. It’s not really anything in that regard. I mean, that’s as simple as I can make it. It’s embarrassing, especially on a night like this for the Godfather Riley,” Adebayo said. ‘For us it’s short-term memory. I know this is the beginning of the season, but we don’t want to create this as a kind of getting-together. used to’ thing. For us it’s win or misery.”

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Anthony Pasciolla works as a writer for Miami Heat On SI. He can be reached at [email protected] or follow him on X @AnthonyPasci.