Hassan Whiteside talked before Tuesday’s game about how aggravating his right hand is, the one which needed 13 stitches between his middle and ring finger.
The hand needs to be wrapped and re-wrapped, needs heavy padding because opposing players swat and pound at it knowing it’s going to bring some pain.
On Tuesday night, Whiteside dropped some pain on the Pistons.
Using his left hand, the one without the padding and bandages, Whiteside tipped in a rebound off a shot from teammate Goran Dragic as the clock collapsed.
The shot went in as clean as he tries to keep his stitches, the buzzer-beater lifting the Heat to a 97-96 victory over a desperate Detroit team trying to steal Miami’s playoff thunder.