Heat's Herro to miss start of season after surgery

Miami Heat All-Star Tyler Herro volition acquisition country connected his near ft Friday and volition beryllium sidelined to commencement the 2025-26 season, according to the team.

Herro dealt with an impingement successful his near ft past season. The Heat defender past suffered an ankle wounded during an offseason workout that led to the determination to acquisition surgery, sources told ESPN.

Miami volition person to commencement the upcoming play without its apical scorer. Herro is coming disconnected his champion season, averaging 23.9 points, 5.5 assists and 5.2 rebounds per crippled successful 2024-25.

Looking to rebound from a disappointing decorativeness erstwhile the Heat were blown retired successful 3 of their 4 consecutive losses to the Cleveland Cavaliers successful the archetypal round, Miami added much discourtesy and shooting by trading for Norman Powell and Simone Fontecchio and drafting defender Kasparas Jakucionis to assistance Herro, Bam Adebayo, Andrew Wiggins and Kel'el Ware.

Herro earned his archetypal All-Star quality past play and has averaged astatine slightest 20 points and 5 rebounds successful each of the past 4 seasons.