The Miami Heat “maintenance program” may be back for the upcoming season.
Both Josh McRoberts and Amar’e Stoudemire have had surgeries on their knees in recent years. With McRoberts missing the majority of the 2014-15 season due to a tear in his meniscus and Stoudemire on the verge of turning 33 years old in a month, Erik Spoelstra discussed the possibility of holding both veteran players out of back-to-back games in 2015-16:
“We’ll see. All of that with all of our players, we have to get there and gauge a lot of different things.