NBA Finals Game 2: Tyler Herro improving.

DELTA - Tyler Herro, a 23-year-old guard for the Miami Heat,

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has been recuperating for six weeks after undergoing "open reduction and internal ,

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fixation surgery of the third and fourth metacarpal of his right hand,"

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yet the team has decided to exclude him from Game 2 of the NBA Finals on Sunday (8 ET, ABC).

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Herro was listed as "out" by the Heat on their most recent injury report before the game.

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Erik Spoelstra, the Miami coach, stated that "he is improving."

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"The progress is quite encouraging to us. When we arrived in Denver,

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he immediately began performing contact work. We must keep things in perspective.

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