Miami Heat Star Out Indefinitely Following Successful Surgery

The Miami Heat have announced that Tyler Herro underwent successful surgery.

The Miami Heat are in the middle of a first-round playoff series with the Milwaukee Bucks. 

Currently, the series is knotted up at 1-1, but the Heat lost one of their best players (Tyler Herro) due to a hand injury in Game 1.

On Friday, the team announced that the former Kentucky star is out indefinitely following successful surgery. 

Via The Heat: "INJURY UPDATE: Tyler Herro underwent successful open reduction and internal fixation surgery of the third and fourth metacarpal of his right hand. 

He is expected to miss a minimum of 6 weeks."

INJURY UPDATE: Tyler Herro underwent successful open reduction and internal fixation surgery of the third and fourth metacarpal of his right hand.

He is expected to miss a minimum of 6 weeks.
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— Miami HEAT (@MiamiHEAT) April 21, 2023

Herro had another productive season with averages of 20.1 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.2 assists per contest in 67 games while shooting 37.8% from the three-point range. 

In 2022, he won the 6th Man of The Year Award and he helped the Heat make the NBA Finals in 2020. 

This year, they went 44-38 and finished as the seventh seed but lost their play-in tournament game so they are the eighth seed. 

Despite having an up-and-down season this year, the Heat have been to the Conference Finals in two out of the last three seasons. 

Playing without Herro will be a challenge, but they have one of the best rosters in the league and are 27-14 in the 41 games they have hosted on their home floor in Miami (Games 3 and 4 are in Miami on Saturday and Monday). 

Therefore, the Heat will have an excellent chance to take a 3-1 lead or a 2-2 tie to Milwaukee for Game 5. 

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