The Miami Heat have struck gold.
No, not because the team will have a fully healthy roster for opening night.
In fact, Wayne Ellington, James Johnson, Justise Winslow and Dion Waiters will all be absent from game 1-of-82, each with a mid-to-lower body injury.
Rather, Miami lucks out because the team will get one of its back-to-back stretches out of the way in the first two days of the season.
The Association’s head office cracked down on such stretches this season, in an effort to minimize games needed to sit players for rest, among other reasons.