The primary problem for Udonis Haslem has been recovery.

It takes him two days of rest to recover to recover from one day of hard physical work.

That makes today somewhat of a milestone. Haslem was able to follow up full practice participation Tuesday with the full shootaround session Wednesday morning.

So it does appear that he’s getting closer to returning, perhaps for 8 to 10 minutes off the bench.

That return would also give the Heat an emotional boost, if it came in a home game — like say, Game 1 on Sunday against Boston.

“I think the crowd will go crazy,” Dwyane Wade said. “I think it will be of course on that (level) of Alonzo’s not only because of what he’s going to bring but the appreciation of knowing UD worked night after night, day after day, to make sure that he could be back and prepared for this team.”