Heat’s Powell says groin issue likely will linger balance of season; Spoelstra tries some new math
TORONTO — Not only was Norman Powell listed on the Miami Heat injury report with groin soreness ahead of Thursday night’s game against the Toronto Raptors, but the veteran guard said that might be the case for as long as the team’s season plays out. “When you have muscle strains and things like that, you can rehab and everything, but it takes time. You just need rest,” Powell said after the morning shootaround at Scotiabank Arena.
“I just feel like I need rest. I need time to let the body do what it needs to do. “But even though I can get it to a certain point where it feels good, there’s no pain and everything, it doesn’t mean that it’s 100% healed.
Over time, an accumulated amount of stress on the area, then it starts to flare back up. ” So a determination to play through, amid a season when he already has missed 23 games , but also the appreciation that such an approach could leave him compromised. “The good thing,” he said, “is that there’s no event that happened or a pop or anything that occurred to where it’s something bigger.
It’s just accumulated stress. The scar tissue probably hasn’t healed the way it needed to or hasn’t had the time to properly heal, because we do the rehab or whatever and we get it to where there’s no pain. “Then I go back out there and I’m playing and I’m doing things.
I’m doing my workouts. I’m doing all this stuff that I normally do in my normal routine. Then it starts to open back up.