The Miami Heat plays its second preseason game tonight in Brooklyn and before the team takes the court its time to debut the new Heat Check Mailbag.
Q: By the way Justise Winslow is talking it seems as though Rodney McGruder has already won starting job. Is there still a battle for the starting small forward job? If Justise does come off the bench, how does that affect his contract extension? – Derrick Wyatt, Jupiter
Nothing is set in stone and there are still five preseason games left for Erik Spoelstra to decide what he wants to do with his lineups and rotations, but it’s looking more and more like McGruder and not Winslow or Josh Richardson will be in the starting lineup alongside Goran Dragic, Dion Waiters, James Johnson and Hassan Whiteside.