Dwyane Wade will miss his first game of the season on Friday against the Atlanta Hawks after suffering a hamstring injury in the Miami Heat's loss to the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday.

"For me, obviously I want to play as many games as possible," Wade said. "As I said before, you can't control certain things. I've had worse. I'll be back out there soon enough. Just when I come back, I want to be able to play the way I was playing the way before, and not hampered like I was the other night.

"I got to be smart. And then we've got two games coming up this weekend, so I'm able to reevaluate. Right now, it's simply just day to day. I'm going to do what's best for the team. I thought the other night was best for me to keep playing through it and give ourselves a chance to win. It's just not smart for me to try to push it."

Wade missed 28 games last season, nine of which with a similar hamstring injury.

"It's just the season," Erik Spoelstra said. "He's been working a lot. So, it's nothing major right now. We just want to be smart about it. It's more of an accumulation.

"Early in the season, we have to be smart about all this."