Waiters works

Waiters went through aggressive one-on-one drills against after Tuesday’s practice, with coach and his staff

Haslem Spoelstra Luke Babbitt McRoberts, Udonis Erik

looking on.

Spoelstra said the approach would be the same today as it was Monday with sidelined Waiters,

and that any only would be pressed into action under dire circumstance.

Babbitt (strained right hip flexor) and McRoberts (left-foot stress fracture) have been removed from the Heat’s injury report, the first time McRoberts has been off since December.

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Waiters is listed as questionable.

Waiters showed signs of a limp after his more aggressive moves in Tuesday’s drill work.

“His first step is amazing, it’s explosive,” Haslem said. “It’s probably one of the quicker first steps that I’ve witnessed. He’ll probably just continue to work and get some of that stiffness out as he gets more confident in that ankle.”

Waiters said the goal is to make himself available for the playoffs.

demurred. “First of all,” he said, “I’m a basketball player. I don’t make those kinds of decisions. Pat, he know his job really well. Of course we’d like to stay together. You always have that doubt in your head if you started playing sooner, if you didn’t have so many injuries. But this is part of sports, part of basketball. We’ll see what happens.” Center

said Riley already made a statement about the roster by keeping it intact even when standing 11-30 at midseason. “I think Pat just let us see what we could do,” he said. “He didn’t trade any of us. So he wanted to see what this team could do.”

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