Dwyane Wade Out Indefinitely With Hamstring Injury
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The Miami Heat have been playing better basketball in the new year than they had been during the final two months of 2014.
If the Heat are going to continue on that trend, they're going to have to do it without Dwyane Wade.
Wade left Tuesday's game against the Milwaukee Bucks with a hamstring injury and did not return.
On Thursday, Wade told reporters that the injury will keep him out of the lineup for at least the next couple weeks.
"I won't be seeing y'all for a little while, so take a good look at this face," Wade told the media.
This means that Wade will more than likely miss the NBA All-Star Game on February 15th, assuming that he'd be chosen as one of the Eastern Conference's reserve players.
He will also miss the Heat's road game against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers on February 11th.
"You can't put a time on it," he said. "You can't look at the hamstring and say you're going to be out this amount of games. Like many muscle strains, you've got to go day-by-day."
The Heat have much improved of late, going 6-5 since January 4th. In comparison, Miami won just five of their 17 games during the month of December.
Currently the Heat sit in seventh place in the Eastern Conference with a 20-25 record, holding a 1 1/2 game lead over eighth place Charlotte. Miami trails sixth place Milwaukee by three games.
The Heat's next game is on Friday when they host the 30-17 Dallas Mavericks. Following that game they embark on a 4-game road trip that takes them through Boston, Detroit, Minnesota and San Antonio.
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