The Miami Heat announced on Tuesday that Point Guard Terry Rozier would be unavailable for the team’s play-in game on the road against the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday night. Rozier has been out since April 7 due to a neck injury he suffered against the Indiana Pacers. The winner of Wednesday’s game will face the New York Knicks in a first-round series beginning on Saturday. The loser will host either the Chicago Bulls or Atlanta Hawks on Friday to earn the eighth seed and a matchup with the top overall seed Boston Celtics.
Rozier averaged 19.8 points per game this season with both the Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat.
Will Miami be able to advance without one of their key players?
Terry Rozier Career Summary
Terry Rozier (neck) ruled out for Wednesday.
— Underdog NBA (@Underdog__NBA) April 16, 2024
Rozier was drafted 16th overall in the 2015 NBA Draft by the Boston Celtics out of Louisville. He spent the first four seasons of his career in Boston before spending parts of the next five seasons with the Charlotte Hornets. Rozier was acquired by the Heat in January in exchange for veteran Point Guard Kyle Lowry and a first-round pick.
Rozier is averaging 14.3 points per game and 3.6 assists for his NBA career.
The Miami Heat Gear up for 2024 NBA Playoffs
Miami has been extremely successful in recent years during the NBA Playoffs. The team has made the NBA Finals in two of the last four years and the Eastern Conference Finals in three of the last four. The Heat will go as far as Jimmy Butler takes them. Butler has been the driving force behind a very successful half-decade down in “South Beach.”
The Miami Heat are no stranger to the NBA Play-In Tournament as they went all the way from the eighth seed to the NBA Finals last season. They would go on and lose to the Denver Nuggets in five games.
Miami will have a tough test in front of them against a Philadelphia 76ers team that is getting healthy at exactly the right time.
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