Miami @ Atlanta preview

Last Meeting ( Oct 29, 2019 ) Atlanta 97, Miami 112

The Atlanta Hawks were off to a hot start behind Eastern Conference Player of the Week Trae Young, but he could be out indefinitely after coming down awkwardly on Tuesday. The Hawks will try to earn a win without their second-year star when they host the Miami Heat in the back end of a home-and-home set on Thursday.

Young, who averaged 34 points and nine assists while leading Atlanta to wins in two of its first three games, suffered a sprained ankle in the second quarter of Tuesday's 112-97 loss at Miami and had to be helped off the floor. "It was painful,'' Young, who finished with five points in the loss and had X-rays come back negative, told reporters. "Knock on wood, I haven't had too many injuries. I've been blessed not to have too many injuries throughout my whole entire life, so that was definitely a tough pain.'' The Heat improved to 3-1 with the win and finally got a look at star swingman Jimmy Butler, who scored 21 points on 5-of-11 shooting in 31 minutes in his team debut. "He was running around at shootaround like it was a playoff game," Miami coach Erik Spoelstra told reporters of Butler, who sat out the first three games after the birth of a daughter. "He was just so excited to have an opportunity to finally get started in the regular season."

TV: 7 p.m. ET, TNT

ABOUT THE HEAT (3-1): Butler steps onto a team that is enjoying its own youth movement with rookies Kendrick Nunn and Tyler Herro taking turns throwing up strong numbers. Herro was the star on Tuesday, when he scored 29 points while going 7-of-9 from the field and 12-of-16 from the line in 29 minutes off the bench. "Tyler did it very uniquely tonight," Spoelstra told reporters after the win. "I don't know if I've seen a guy since Jamal Crawford, maybe, draw that many fouls on threes. But he has a maturity to his game that he'll probably be able to draw fouls and also put pressure on the defense in different ways. It's not just about his 3-point shooting."

ABOUT THE HAWKS (2-2): Power forward John Collins tried to carry the scoring load with Young off the floor and finished with 30 points on 10-of-17 shooting, but Jabari Parker's 12 points off the bench represented the only other Atlanta player in double figures Tuesday. The Hawks are waiting for a breakout from rookie small forward Cam Reddish, who went 2-of-10 from the floor on Tuesday and is averaging 4.3 points on 21.9 percent shooting. Shooting guard Kevin Huerter is being held to a restriction of 20 minutes while making his way back from a knee injury and struggled to find a rhythm while scoring eight points on 2-of-6 shooting.

BUZZER BEATERS

1. Collins' five 3-pointers on Tuesday marked a career high.

2. Miami SF Justise Winslow scored a season-low two points on 1-of-7 shooting in the win.

3. Hawks SG Evan Turner (Achilles) sat out Tuesday and is day-to-day.

PREDICTION: Heat 103, Hawks 99