The Golden State Warriors were up against it facing the Miami Heat without Steph Curry, Draymond Green, Jimmy Butler, Jonathan Kuminga or Al Horford. Still, the nine remaining Warriors battled hard against a mostly-full-strength Heat team before Miami’s 18-4 run to start the 4th quarter was too much to overcome in a 110-96 Heat win.

Draymond Green and Jimmy Butler will join Steph Curry, Al Horford, and Jonathan Kuminga in street clothes in Miami.

Stephen Curry is sitting out the Golden State Warriors' game against the Miami Heat due to right ankle soreness

The Warriors have already slogged through five back-to-backs this season. No other team has played four. The Rockets have yet to play one. The Lakers, the league’s precious children, just came off a stretch where they played only two games in nine days.

On Wednesday in a back-to-back, Curry didn’t play but he crushed the Li-Ning Way of Wade 1 “Purple Stingray“ sneakers to honor D-Wade. RELATED: Jimmy Butler's outrageous hair has Stephen Curry losing his mind when he sees it He was seen on the bench rocking them during the game.

Butler missed just his second game of the season on Wednesday. The back issue did not seem like a significant concern, though, and the fact that it was the second game of a back-to-back set for Golden State may have factored into the team’s decision to give Butler the night off.