MIAMI – Heat guard Dion Waiters has been Mr. Clutch during the team's playoff push, but he will be sidelined with an ankle injury on Sunday when the Heat host the Blazers.
The team has listed Waiters as out for Sunday's contest with a sprained left ankle injury that was suffered during Friday night's game against the Timberwolves.
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During Saturday's Heat Family Festival head coach Erik Spoelstra said Waiters, "was in the locker room doing treatment pretty much all night (Friday) and then early (Saturday) morning. We got on it right away but we'll just have to see how it progresses from here. I think it's too early to tell right now to put a timeline on it."
Wayne Ellington is expected to start in place of the injured Waiters Sunday against the Blazers.
The Heat entered Sunday holding on to the seventh playoff seed in the Eastern Conference.