Will Trae Young and Jimmy Butler playing today? Injury Report Hawks

The Atlanta Hawks and Miami Heat will face off in Miami on Tuesday night for the right to face off in the first round in Boston.

Injury Update for Atlanta Hawks and Miami Heat

The loser of tonight’s game will face the winner of the Bulls-Raptors matchup on Friday night. The winner of that game will receive the 8th seed and a first-round matchup with top-seeded Milwaukee.

Atlanta, which won 43 games last season, finished this campaign at 41-41.

Atlanta star Trae Young has some unfinished business when his Hawks visit the Miami Heat on Tuesday night for an Eastern Conference play-in game.

Last season, the Heat eliminated Young and the Hawks from the first round of the playoffs in five games (4-1).

Young, who finished 10th in the league in scoring this season (26.2 points), has struggled — relative to his overall numbers — throughout his career against the Heat.

In 17 career games versus Miami, Young is averaging 21.4 points on 40.2 percent shooting, including 32.8 percent on 3-pointers. In four games this season, Young averaged 19.8 points on 35.6 percent shooting, including 20.8 percent from deep.

Given all of that, it’s no wonder Miami is 3-1 against Atlanta this season. On March 4, for example, Miami held Young to eight points on 2-for-13 shooting as the Heat prevailed 117-109.

The Hawks closed their regular season on Sunday with a 120-114 loss at the Boston Celtics. It was a meaningless game in the sense that playoff seeding didn’t change with the result, and that fact was not lost on Hawks coach Quin Snyder.

De’Andre Hunter was the only Hawks starter to play against Boston as Snyder rested his other regulars, including Young.

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra did something similar, resting leading scorer Jimmy Butler in Miami’s final two games.

In addition, Spoelstra rested starters Bam Adebayo, Kevin Love and Tyler Herro in Miami’s loss at the Washington Wizards on Friday. Reserve point guard Kyle Lowry was also rested against Washington.

Butler faced the Hawks three times this season, averaging 25.0 points, 8.0 rebounds and 6.3 assists. For the season, he is averaging 22.9 points, 5.9 rebounds and 5.3 assists.

Miami’s other stars are Adebayo, who is averaging 20.4 points, and Herro, who scores at a clip of 20.1 per game.

Overall, Miami went 44-38 this season, nine fewer wins than in 2021-22. This season, the Heat never had a winning or losing streak longer than four games.