That hard fall you might have seen Mike Beasley take tonight in Miami is a bruised hip.
He fell hard after making a layup and ended up sprawled on the court in great pain.
Teammates Darko Milicic and Corey Brewer helped him to the locker room.
X-rays taken at the arena were negative and his injury was called a "left hip contusion" by a team representative.
That's bruised.
He cannot return the game whether he's healthy enough to or not because Kosta Koufos had to shoot his free throw for him after a foul was called on the play.
By NBA rules, that makes him done for the night.
The Heat lead 69-53 at the half on a night when LeBron James didn't score a field goal until the first half's final minute .
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