Game Thread: Heat @ Spurs Dec 28, 2021 - 7:30pm Texas Time (CT)

[MultiTroll]

How the h are the Spurs 7 point favorites?

[MultiTroll]

Oh.
Miami Heat

Out
P.J. Tucker, PF
Gabe Vincent, PG
Zylan Cheatham, F
Jimmy Butler, SF

Day to Day:
KZ Okpala, SF

Spurs
DJM out, everyone else in.

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How the h are the Spurs 7 point favorites?

they played last night is my only guess then had to fly halfway across the country. maybe Vegas thinks they lost half their players to covid too like Detroit did.

either way, it is somewhat surprising.

[RC_Drunkford]

Walker is questionable for tonight. I didn't know how many players are out for the Heat. I don't even know who they are starting.

[mo7888]

Walker is questionable for tonight. I didn't know how many players are out for the Heat. I don't even know who they are starting.

As of an hour ago per Paul Garcia

Here's who the Heat have available as of right now for today's game:

1. D Robinson
2. T Herro
3. O Yurtseven
4. C Martin
5. M Garrett
6. A Holman (once signed)
7. K Guy (once signed)

K Okpala is questionable or Heat need to sign 1 more G-League player

[slick'81]

Heat literally have nobody to suit up. Spurs better get their heads in the game and take this W

[emanueldavidginobili]

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[Dejounte]

This season is bizarro season. Depth is key. Spurs need to draft another 10 guards just in case.

[emanueldavidginobili]

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[buttsR4rebounding]

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The Miami Heat are signing C Aric Holman of the G-League Austin Spurs to a 10-day hardship deal, sources tell ESPN. His best attribute today? Driving distance. He's on his way to San Antonio to meet the Heat and help them have 8 active players to avoid a postponement vs. Spurs.
10:03 AM · Dec 29, 2021·Twitter Web App

[John B]

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I’d hate it to be David Robinson’s son :lol

[John B]

Spurs need to redeem themselves for that Jazz lost, which I thought was winnable. Poeltl without Bam should be a top 10 center tonight :lol

Spurs by 28 pts :flag::flag::flag:

[Dverde]

Tim Reynolds: There is a chance – repeat, a chance – that Heat-Spurs won’t be played tonight, (https://hoopshype.com/social/) source tells AP. Still very fluid based on whether Heat can fill roster or has more depletion. If it is called off, it would be postponement No. 10 in the NBA this season.
– via Twitter ByTimReynolds (https://twitter.com/ByTimReynolds)

[wildbill2u]

If Cacock is out because of health protocols, (eg Covid) , you can bet that more Spurs will follow. I wonder if the NBA will change the protocols to follow the NEW CDC quarantine recommendations of 5 days. ????

[itzsoweezee]

Spurs better win this game. Can’t have another lapse against a shitty team. San Antonio needs to be extra precautious against Covid. This is one of those things on the margins that San Antonio used to emphasize to gain advantages versus the competition

[Seventyniner]

I had always wondered how the league would look with a rule that no player could play more than 66 games, but have rosters expanded to 18. It would reward depth over top-heaviness and would likely reduce load management shenanigans because everyone would have to do it.

We're getting that by accident this year. Some players will play 82 but I bet it will be a far lower number than in normal years.

[Elementis]

Spurs should win this game if it's played, but then probably send half their roster into protocol courtesy of the Heat...

[LeBowen]

Just give them Forbes and Eubanks...permanently, if possible.

[John B]

https://www.poundingtherock.com/2021/12/29/22858643/nba-tells-miami-to-call-up-austin-g-league-players-for-tonights-spurs-heat-game?fbclid=IwAR3H6crgMckku1meNgXSAUDwFMYLDNg1XZNf RTENeT0---XpnqP9Gz0Ae3U

NBA basically has told Heat to take any three available players from G League Austin Spurs, taking all lengths to limit postponement of games, currently at 10.

[John B]

Just give them Forbes and Eubanks...permanently, if possible.

Don’t forget Thad, which would be a sigh of relief for Pop.

[szkorhetz]

https://www.poundingtherock.com/2021/12/29/22858643/nba-tells-miami-to-call-up-austin-g-league-players-for-tonights-spurs-heat-game?fbclid=IwAR3H6crgMckku1meNgXSAUDwFMYLDNg1XZNf RTENeT0---XpnqP9Gz0Ae3U

NBA basically has told Heat to take any three available players from G League Austin Spurs, taking all lengths to limit postponement of games, currently at 10.
What a fucking joke

[Spurs Homer]

I do not see this NBA season making it to the end…

I do not see how any real playoffs and real finals happen at all…

Covid doesn’t have any loyalty to any team btw

[Spurs Homer]

Wrong date on thread also btw

[BatManu20]

Postponed.


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[LeBowen]

What a joke, Butler and Robinson both played 35 minutes last night, but now they're "injured".

[Allan Rowe vs Wade]

No more game threada for op


Or threads period


Or posts, to be safe


Hell ...ban his ass

[rjv]

i call bs on the heat's injury report

[heyheymymy]

Well shit

[NASpurs]

Can't say we lost or won this one tbh. Great team effort though.

[JPB]

hope the NBA investigate on that cos teams can clearly use it at their benefice, specially at the end of the season for decisive games. You're superstar is injured and you have a few covid cases? Bam, add a couple injuries and you can postpone the game so your superstar recovers and can play...

[KingKev]

This is good news for the tank

[Leetonidas]

Heat should be forfeiting not postponing :pctoss

[RC_Drunkford]

Butler, Robinson and Herro all played yesterday. They were definitely forcing a postponement. Bad for the Spurs, should've been an easy W

[slick'81]

Would if been a joke for the spurs to basically play austin. Good call

[Dejounte]

The game is postponed

[MultiTroll]

No more game threada for op


Or threads period


Or posts, to be safe


Hell ...ban his ass
https://i.imgflip.com/1h5jn8.jpg

:lol pussy

[MultiTroll]

Would if been a joke for the spurs to basically play austin. Good call
Make a large bet.
Would have been great.

[Dex]

Somehow this is still all Bryn Forbes fault.

[Cabrito]

Forbes is indestructible.

[John B]

Freaking weak ass Poeltl :bang

[Larry O]

Hmmm.... the Heat are in a tight race in the Leastern Conference at 4th place at 22-14! :) This would have been a back-to-back game, & they could have felt that this could be a loss in their current situation, so to save face & not add another loss & loose a tad bit of ground to the Bucks, just go ahead & throw in the towel & postpone the game & possibly make it up later, when their roster is at full strength, & pick up the W? Oh well...

[bluebellmaniac]

Title says game was yesterday... WTF?

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Well, fvck.


And, btw, wrong date on the game thread title. Not that that matters for sh!t now.

[keithington1]

Spurs currently a 10th seed play in team. Say hello 11th pick.

[John B]

Remember last year when the Griz was missing their entire SL on a 2nd night of B2B, I think 5th game of their roadtrip, but still did not prevent a Spurs beating? :lol This current team still plays down to their opponent so…

[Trainwreck2100]

Can't say we lost or won this one tbh. Great team effort though.

its a loss, turned an easy W into actual effort whenever they reschedule it

[JeffDuncan]

Try to see it as a moral victory.

[dbestpro]

This is BS. Heat is still planning to fly to Houston tonight, as originally scheduled, for Friday's game vs. Rockets.

[Ice009]

This is BS. Heat is still planning to fly to Houston tonight, as originally scheduled, for Friday's game vs. Rockets.

What a freaking joke. They should be penalized for this BS.

[Mr. Body]

So how are the Spurs punished for the Heat being unable to stay healthy?

[BatManu20]

Heat players shitting on SA :lol


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[Spurs Homer]

Fuck

at least you guys found out in real time…

i recorded the “game” and was all set to watch as usual without commercials-

and i tune in for some fucking lame ass 80’s shit movie instead of the game…

[GAustex]

Fuck

at least you guys found out in real time…

i recorded the “game” and was all set to watch as usual without commercials-

and i tune in for some fucking lame ass 80’s shit movie instead of the game…

I watch the Spurs the same way.

[Spurs Homer]

I watch the Spurs the same way.

yup

skip all the delays, foul call reviews, halftime, etc

[Allan Rowe vs Wade]

:lol pussy

It was worth a try

[Allan Rowe vs Wade]

Heat players shitting on SA :lol


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Dumb mfer doesnt have the sense to go grab some fucking bombass enchiladas and tacos

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Heat players shitting on SA :lol


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It's no south beach.

[GAustex]

yup

skip all the delays, foul call reviews, halftime, etc
I found waiting 40 mins after scheduled start I start watching and by end game I am caught up.

[timtonymanu]

Heat players shitting on SA :lol


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Hope that faggot has a career ending injury now and I’m not even from San Antonio lol

[timtonymanu]

Somehow this is still all Bryn Forbes fault.

It is.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Heat players shitting on SA :lol


1476296848541470720

Any asshole who played his college ball in Reno, the armpit of Nevada, shouldn’t be bad-mouthing San Antonio. But I guess he’s all that with that two way contract he’s rocking this year.

[BG_Spurs_Fan]

Once the Spurs players inevitably start going down on their upcoming road trip, I hope the NBA is nice enough to postpone games again instead of forcing them to play the Austin team...

[Allan Rowe vs Wade]

It's no south beach.

Miami is a shithole and south beach sucks ass

imo tbh

[Mr. Body]

Miami is a shithole and south beach sucks ass

imo tbh

Miami is gonna be underwater by the end of the decade.

[K...]

Man, would have been sweet to wreck up Mario Chalmers again. Maybe bring tony and gino back for one last bit of 2013 revenge

[baseline bum]

Miami is a shithole and south beach sucks ass

imo tbh

Only good thing to come out of Miami is 8thStreetLatinas.com.

[Allan Rowe vs Wade]

Only good thing to come out of Miami is 8thStreetLatinas.com.

cuban pastelitos are the bomb too