Jimmy Butler injury update: Will Heat SF play Friday vs. Pacers?

The Miami Heat are notorious for loading up their injury report but the team actually has gone through some fairly tough stretches on the health front. No one embodies that more than Jimmy Butler, who has dealt with a series of issues this season. Here's a look at his status ahead of Friday's game against the Indiana Pacers.

Jimmy Butler injury updates

Butler has dealt with back, ankle and knee problems this season but he's currently listed as probable on the injury report with an illness. Butler will likely maintain some sort of designation for a while under the “injury management” tag, but he was ruled out of the last game with an illness after initially landing on the report as probable. We'll see if he can come back Friday.

Butler's knee is the bigger problem to watch in the long term, as it flares up from time to time and sometimes does him in at the worst moment. He had to leave at halftime of Game 3 in the East finals against the Celtics due to knee swelling. Illnesses will come and go but that knee might ultimately define Miami's season.

  
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