Heat’s Bam Adebayo sidelined vs. Clippers, listed by Spoelstra as day-to-day

Center Bam Adebayo on Monday night left guard Tyler Herro as the Miami Heat’s last man standing when it came to appearing in every game so far this season, with Adebayo ruled out against the Los Angeles Clippers.

Playing through after taking a hard fall in Saturday night’s victory over the Portland Trail Blazers, Adebayo was downgraded to questionable earlier in the day Monday and then listed as out 90 minutes prior to tip-off at the Intuit Dome due to a lower-back contusion.

“He’s been dealing with it for a few days,” coach Erik Spoelstra said. “He’s been getting a lot of treatment and it kind of seized up on him this morning.

“We’ll treat it day-to-day and we’ll reevaluate him tomorrow.”

Herro and Adebayo had appeared in each of the season’s first 37 games prior to Monday.

The absence of Adebayo came with forward Jimmy Butler missing the sixth game of a seven-game unpaid team suspension for “conduct detrimental to the team.”

In addition, veteran guard Josh Richardson was sent home ahead of Monday night’s game for an MRI on his inflamed right heel, having not played since Nov. 18.

The Heat’s six-game western swing concludes Wednesday night against the Los Angeles Lakers at Crypto.com Arena, before the home schedule resumes Friday against the Denver Nuggets at Kaseya Center.

That game against the Nuggets is the first Butler is eligible to return.