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Heat lose Deng to knee bruise, Beasley to elbow stinger in win over Pistons

Steve Mitchell / USA TODAY Sports

The Miami Heat continue to be leveled by the injury bug. 

Luol Deng left Sunday's 109-102 win over the Detroit Pistons with a bruise and swelling in his left knee and didn't return. Michael Beasley, meanwhile, never came back after leaving with a right elbow contusion

Deng, who scored four points on 1-of-5 shooting in 18 minutes before departing, had been playing through a knee bruise he suffered last week in a win over the Boston Celtics. But the small forward couldn't go on after aggravating it. 

Beasley, limited to seven minutes off the bench prior to his exit, suffered a stinger in his elbow, causing the nerve to flare up and allowing him no mobility in his right arm. 

Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra sounded hopeful, though, of having both available for Tuesday's game against the San Antonio Spurs, reported Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun Sentinel

Miami was already without Hassan Whiteside for the third straight game as he recovers from a hand laceration, while All-Star Dwyane Wade played through a sore left knee that had fluid drained from it Saturday. It didn't slow him down, though, as he erupted for a game-high 40 points in the victory.

The Heat keep plugging through the adversity, as they sit in seventh place in the Eastern Conference and are on the brink of making their seventh consecutive playoff appearance.

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