Heat guard Marcus Garrett has a fractured right wrist, tweets Anthony Chiang of The Miami Herald. The team announced that Garrett is wearing a cast and his condition will be reevaluated in four weeks.
A wrist injury derailed Garrett’s rookie season and forced him to have surgery in January. He was released from his two-way contract following the injury, but he signed a new two-way deal this summer.
Coach Erik Spoelstra refused to speculate on whether Garrett could lose his roster spot again after the latest injury, calling it a “business decision,” tweets Ira Winderman of The Sun-Sentinel.
If Garrett is released, Miami has several candidates for the two-way opening, including Haywood Highsmith, who is with the Heat on a partially guaranteed contract, and Mychal Mulder, who signed with the team over the weekend. The other two-way slot is held by Jamal Cain, whose Exhibit 10 contract was converted on Sunday.
Garrett, 23, appeared in all four Heat games during the preseason, averaging 3.3 PPG in 18.4 minutes per night. He got into 12 games with Miami last season before the injury.
He definitely need to take as much time letting it heal.
Damn. Really sucks to see. Hopefully it’s not another long absence. This dude is such a mo ster defensively. Watching him in person is even more fun to watch, and he was great last might against Houstons young guards…
As I speculated the last couple of days though, now I wonder if his spot will go to Dru Smith, as they still have Oladipo and Lowry. Really unfortunate timing too, b/c they could have kept Darius Days, and now they lost him to Houston, who has so many others at his positions anyway, all b/c they didnt wait the extra couple of days to let him get a shot in a good matchup Monday, where they should have cut Orlando Robinson instead, if they wanted to bring in Mulder. That is actually really frustrating, considering that Days fills positions of need