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Herro, Nunn again questionab­le

Oladipo remains out

- By Ira Winderman

The cone of uncertaint­y again has guard Tyler Herro and Kendrick Nunn among the unknowns for the Miami Heat.

With both having missed Monday night’s loss to the Chicago Bulls, the two were listed as questionab­le Tuesday for Wednesday night’s game against the San Antonio Spurs at AmericanAi­rlines Arena.

“Look, nobody’s going to feel sorry for us,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “Nobody cares what any particular team is going through, and everybody’s going through something.”

Herro has missed three of the past five games due to a sore right foot, scoring 22 and 12 points in the two intervenin­g appearance­s.

Nunn was coming off a solid nine-game stretch as a starter before being sidelined Monday by neck spasms.

Guard Duncan Robinson was not on the team’s injury report, after leaving in the second half of Monday night’s loss due to a stomach illness. Robinson is the lone Heat player yet to miss a game this season,

Forward Andre Iguodala, who missed Monday’s game ostensibly for rest but was listed as out due to a sore hip, also was not on Tuesday’s 5:30 p.m. NBA injury report.

Meanwhile, guard Victor Oladipo again was listed as out for Wednesday, having missed the past 10 games due to a sore right knee.

As has been the case for most of the season, guard Gabe Vincent was listed as probable, with rightknee soreness.

For their part, the Spurs are listing guard Derrick White as out after he sprained his right ankle in Monday night’s overtime road victory in Washington.

Back at it

In the wake of Monday night’s loss to the Bulls, Heat forward Trevor Ariza said it was clear that Chicago had gone to school on the defensive precepts the Heat utilized in Saturday night’s win in the teams’ previous matchup.

“When you give a team a steady diet of something, these are profession­al players, with IQs,” he said. “They make adjustment­s, they figure things out.

“They were pretty prepared for what we do. They had an idea for what we do. They made adjustment­s.”

The next challenge of an opponent having gone to school could come Wednesday, with the Spurs on a three-game winning streak since last Wednesday’s 107-87 home loss to the Heat.

Spoelstra said he is not sold on opponents having gone to school over the course of games on his team.

“It depends,” Spoelstra said. “There was that stretch of games when we were doing incredible during the second half. So it’s a matter of consistenc­y and putting together 48 minutes.

“I thought our activity level was really high [Monday night]. There were just some key moments where we really needed to get a stop, whatever that momentum was in that time of the game, and we weren’t able to get ‘em.”

Adebayo rolling

With his 23 points Monday against the Bulls, Heat center Bam

Adebayo made it a career-best 47 consecutiv­e games in double figures.

It is the longest streak by a Heat player since Goran Dragic did it in 60 in a row over two seasons (Jan.3, 2017-Nov.15, 2017) and the longest in-season streak by a Heat player since LeBron James scored in double figures in all 77 of his appearance­s in 2013-14, scoring in double figures in all 294 of his regular-season games with the Heat.

Milestone approachin­g

Limited to one 3-pointer by the stomach illness that took him out of Monday’s game, Robinson is now at 494 career 3-pointers through 150 regular-season games, poised to become the NBA player to reach 500 in the fewest games. The record is 199 games by Damian Lillard.

This season, alone, Robinson became the fastest to 300 threes (95 games, 22 games quicker than Luka Doncic) and the fastest to 400 made threes (125 games, 34 games quicker than Trae Young).

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