MIAMI _ A foot issue that has lingered since the preseason kept Goran Dragic out of practice Thursday, with the Miami Heat point guard hopeful that a cortisone injection will reduce his ongoing discomfort.
"It's going on like two weeks," he said of the pain in his right foot. "Get a lot of pain after practice and during the games. We just want to go and treat it first and see if it's going to be any better. But you're always pounding in this, so it's always the same or worse. Then we just decided yesterday, I went and got a shot.
"The doc said usually when you get cortisone shots, it takes like 48 hours, and, after, it calms down. So it's still early, but we'll see."
The Heat next play Saturday against the Atlanta Hawks on the second stop of a three-game trip. Dragic has yet to miss time during the season with the ailment.
"We did MRI before the season," he said. "I had some ligaments, partial strain. It's an awkward area, because it's a joint, so you cannot get a lot of circulation."
Dragic, 32, said surgery is not a consideration. He missed seven games last season: three with a sore left elbow, two with a bruised left knee, one with a sprained right ankle and one with a sore knee.
