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Wade's shoulder hurting

Heat guard Dwyane Wade's surgically repaired left shoulder was in worse shape than the team initially revealed.

Coach Pat Riley said Monday that Wade's shoulder was dislocated to an extent rarely seen by team doctors and that he also sustained serious nerve damage. Wade injured the shoulder in a Feb. 21 loss at Houston last season.

He had offseason surgeries to repair the shoulder and cartilage in his left knee. Wade has been playing through soreness from those old injuries in addition to a bruised right shoulder, a sore shin and a jammed finger from recent games.

''I'm really, really concerned about it -- those are compensation injuries,'' said Riley, who has tried to cut Wade's minutes recently. ``There have actually been some games when it was actually painful for me to watch him. He'd play something like 40 minutes and he was barely able to move [afterward].''

Wade sat out Friday at Dallas and came off the bench Sunday at Memphis. He's no longer waiting for the soreness to go away. ''I've just reached a point where I understand this is just how my body is going to feel,'' Wade said.

IN AND STILL OUT

Forward Dorell Wright was set to arrive in Minneapolis late Monday night and could play Tuesday.

Wright, who has missed three games with a sprained left ankle, did not travel for the first two games of the trip. Guard Smush Parker, however, did not rejoin the team and continues to be shopped by the Heat, which reportedly offered him to Seattle but the Sonics weren't interested.

TUESDAY:

HEAT AT TIMBERWOLVES

• When: 8 p.m.

• Where: Target Center, Minnesota

• TV, radio: Sun Sports, WIOD (610), WQBA (1140, Spanish)

• The series: Heat leads 20-16

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