While the rest of his team is focusing on their race to the playoffs, Miami Heat centre\u00a0Hassan Whiteside has been focusing on getting his hand better.<\/p>\n
Whiteside sustained his hand injury<\/a> on Tuesday while attempting a dunk. A blow against the rim resulted in a 10-stitch laceration<\/a> in the webbing between the middle and ring fingers on his right hand.<\/p>\n Whiteside was being optimistic when he said \u201cI just have to tape it up and put some\u00a0pad on my hand.<\/p>\n According to Whiteside, his pain is still at about a 6 or 7 out of 10, and Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said returning one-handed isn\u2019t an option.<\/p>\n Whiteside is focused on keeping the swelling down as much as possible and doing\u00a0hand exercises to help it heal faster, but other than that his treatment options are\u00a0limited.<\/p>\n Trainer Jay Sabol and the medical staff for the team have been trying to find\u00a0options that would allow him to return to the lineup, but as Spoelstra said, \u201cit needs\u00a0to heal before we take the next step.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While the rest of his team is focusing on their race to the playoffs, Miami Heat centre\u00a0Hassan Whiteside has been focusing on getting his hand better. Whiteside sustained his hand injury on Tuesday while attempting a dunk. A blow against the rim resulted in a 10-stitch laceration in the webbing between the middle and ring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}