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Miami Heat's Victor Oladipo To Team After Injury: "Don't Shed Any Tears For Me, I'm Going To Get Through All Of This"

Miami Heat guard Victor Oladipo in good spirts after latest knee injury

Shandel Richardson

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Before tip-off of Game 4, Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra offered an update on injured guard Victor Oladipo. 

He said Oladipo is remaining positive despite another setback. He is expected to have season-ending surgery later this week. 

"It's sobering, for sure," Spoelstra said. "And, yeah, he had the outlook that you would expect. He said, `Don't shed any tears for me. I'm going to get through all of this. That human side that we keep on talking about. When you see how much he's been able to go through and overcome, you just naturally are rooting for him." 

While their thoughts are with Oladipo, the Heat have to stay focused. A win tonight would put them in control of the series against the top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks. 

"He has all of us convinced he'll get through this," Spoelstra said. "He will find a way. He has that kind of fortitude. In the meantime, these are the playoffs. It does require compartmentalization. There's a lot of teams that are having to go through a lot of different emotions of things like that. We have to focus on the task at hand tonight and that's what we've been talking about."

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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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