<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> As the blame game continued Thursday between the Heat and the Bulls, Dwyane Wade learned he could be back in the game sooner than initially feared. An MRI taken Thursday showed no structural damage, leaving the Heat guard listed as day-to-day with a sprained right wrist. The team would not comment on Wade's status for tonight's home game against New Jersey, but it appears he will miss that game as well as Saturday's trip to Orlando, possibly to return Wednesday at home against the Clippers, limiting his absence to two games. Wade was injured in the first quarter of Wednesday's 109-103 loss in Chicago as he was followed by Bulls guard Kirk Hinrich through a screen set by teammate Udonis Haslem. X-rays taken there were negative, and Wade departed the United Center wearing a protective splint. Wade said Wednesday he felt the wrist was "yanked out of the socket" and left him with "no strength in it." Depending on the perspective, Wade either was injured when Hinrich tugged on his right hand or when his arm became tangled against Haslem. No foul was called on the play. Heat coach Pat Riley, who, like Wade, was unavailable for comment Thursday, was quick to indict Hinrich. "Hinrich grabbed his hand," Riley said late Wednesday. "He does it all the time. Anytime Dwyane comes off screens, they always either grab his shirt or they grab his hand. It's a little bit of a tactic down below the body. The official can't see it. He had Dwyane's hand and he tried to pull his hand out of there, and I think something happened." The Bulls, at their Thursday practice in suburban Chicago, viewed the incident otherwise. "If you look at the play," Bulls Executive Vice President John Paxson told reporters, "I'm not so sure that Dwyane didn't get his hand caught up in his own player as he was trying to come through the screen." Bulls coach Scott Skiles denied any intent by Hinrich, saying Riley was posturing. "Pat's an expert on tactics," he said. "I'll leave it at that. "There are coaches who believe you're somehow jockeying for position when you say things like that or apply pressure to the referees."</div> Source
