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Miami Heat's Jimmy Butler Out Tonight Against Utah Jazz

Butler taking the night off to tend to knee pain

Shandel Richardson

Miami Heat's Jimmy Butler Out Tonight Against Utah Jazz
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Miami Heat forward Jimmy Butler will not play tonight against the Utah Jazz. 

The Heat are listing as Butler taking a maintenance game because of knee soreness. 

Here's the game preview: 

Game time: 9 p.m., ET

Where: Vivint Arena

TV: Bally Sports Sun

Betting line: Heat +3.5

VITALS: The Miami Heat and and Jazz meet for the first of two matchups this regular season. Last season, Miami swept the series, 2-0, and has currently won three-straight against Utah. The Heat are 25-42 all-time versus the Jazz during the regular season, including 13-20 in home games and 12-22 in road games. For the Heat, Omer Yurtseven (ankle) and Dewayne Dedmon (foot) are out, Udonis Haslem (Achilles) and Caleb Martin (ankle) are questionable, Jimmy Butler (knee), Nikola Jovic (back) and Gabe Vincent (knee) are probable.

PROJECTED STARTERS

HEAT

G Tyler Herro

G Kyle Lowry

C Bam Adebayo

F Max Strus

F Caleb Martin

JAZZ

F Lauri Markkanen

F Kelly Olynyk

C Jarred Vanderbilt

G Jordan Clarkson

G Mike Conley

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Heat coach Erik Spoelstra on Friday's loss to Denver Nuggets: “We pride ourselves in being able to win games with defensive stops going down the stretch. I can’t recall a stop in the last three or four minutes. It seems like they were scoring or being fouled on each one of those possessions.”

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SHANDEL RICHARDSON

Shandel has covered the NBA since 2010, with previous stops at The Athletic and South Florida Sun-Sentinel.  He has covered six NBA Finals, one Super Bowl, the NCAA basketball tournament. He has also been a beat writer for the Miami Hurricanes and contributed on every major beat in South Florida since 2003, including the Miami Dolphins and Miami Marlins. He can also be read in the Sportsbook Review for gambling coverage from around the NBA. A native of Bloomington, Illinois, Shandel attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He's also worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Kansas City Star.  TWITTER: @ShandelRich EMAIL: shandelrich@gmail.com You can subscribe to our YouTube channel here Follow all of our Miami Heat coverage on Facebook here

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